[csw-maintainers] Python 2.7

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 2013/7/26 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>
>>
>> > The newly updated CAS displays underlying errors. To answer my own
>> > question, these errors occur when compiling 2.7 core modules with the
>> > 2.6 interpreter. The failures reported are all about the new bits of
>> > syntax.
>>
>> Which is nominal. The reverse would be not. But, solving the propagation
>> of the interpreter version to the CAS script will solve out issue, isn't
>> it?
>
> Yes, but it would be interpreter versions, in plural, because one
> package could contain files for more than one version of the
> interpreter.
>
> I rewrote the pycompile CAS to support multiple Python versions, using
> very simple pattern matching.
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/21563 (I wrote 2012 by
> mistake. Already corrected.)
>
> It passes the smoke test on my VM, I'm pushing it to unstable.
>
> I wanted to avoid using files for caching file lists, but I think I'll
> revert it back to a state where lists of files to compile are saved.
> The reason is that it current starts calling the interpreter before
> all files are saved, so some of the compilation invocations are
> failing. This should be an easy fix.

I already read the code and it's a nice piece of engineering. It's not
exactly what I had in mind or wrote myself. We will test it throughly
when the first complete implementation is finished.
-- 
Peter