[csw-maintainers] python library directory

[Ben Walton]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Claudio <claudio at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Yeah, it's a poor assumption that the modules are making but...I think
>> the original idea to have a non-versioned python library directory is
>> that it would alleviate the need to rebuild every module for a major
>> version upgrade as most thins would work on newer versions (binary
>> modules exempted).
>
> I am probably way off, but wouldn't non-versioned libraries/trees not
> lead to weird crashes? I imagine not all python releases are binary
> compatible...

I would expect so, yes.  We're either lucky that all of our binary
modules are built against 2.6 or nobody is using the ones that aren't.

Thanks
-Ben
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