[csw-maintainers] Question regarding Python and magic

[Peter FELECAN]

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

> 2013/9/27 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>> If I'm understanding the issue, libmagic provides the conflicting file
>> and py_magic use the one provided by libmagic in whatever target
>> interpreter. Why do you need an additional modulator for such a thing?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Do we need a modulator
> to build a dual 2.6/2.7 package? Yes, we do.

It's your initial affirmation:

> Let's use the one from libmagic sources. The caveat is that it will be
> fiddly to make it 2.6+2.7 compatible. We'll need an additional
> modulator on the Python version.

When you affirmed this we already had modulators for different
interpreter versions. My question was and is: what additional modulator
and why an additional modulator, aside the existing ones.
-- 
Peter