[csw-maintainers] Python 2.7

[Peter FELECAN]

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

> 2013/7/28 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>> 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.
>
> All the basic pieces are now in place. I dropped the fifos in favor of
> regular files. I kept the file descriptors to avoid repeatedly opening
> and closing the temporary files. I'm happy with the way it is now, we
> can proceed with testing.
>
> I did not implement compiling one .py file multiple times for
> different Python versions.

Do you plan to do it later?

> The main concern for the current CAS is the suitability of pattern
> matching. Is it good enough to just match a part of the path to know
> which interpreter to use? It should be good enough for most packages,
> but I'm not sure what the corner cases / contrived path names could
> be.

Even if it misses some is not blocking as the code is there. Anyhow, the
difference between .py and .pyc is not so great (and I don't speak about
.pyo which seems to me a scam), in my experience and if I understood the
mechanism of dynamic compilation the overhead is incurred only
once. This is why supplying the compiled components in the package
seemed to me a very good solution.
-- 
Peter