Re: [gentoo-dev] The Python problem

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:28:34 +0200
Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> wrote:

> So I know a bunch of people have already looked at it, and I'd like to
> know: what do you find better about the Ruby approach compared to the
> Python approach? Is it just the size of python.eclass, or are there a
> number of other issues?

Working targets. USE_PYTHON is junk. What python.eclass does now with
ABIs is a PITA, and requires manually providing a lot of redudant
information (namely, RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS).

Right now, each ebuild has to provide the same information in
PYTHON_DEPEND and RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS. Moreover, if an ebuild
supports, say, py3 and its dependency doesn't, the ebuild has to
restrict py3 too.

I'd like to see that fixed somehow. I'd like to set a single supported
Python version information in an ebuild, and let the dependency
resolver handle everything else.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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