rfc: python2.7 for F14

[Brandon Lozza]

I know this might be slightly off topic because of python but:

I would love to see a feature for GCC 4.5 if its not already assumed
to be in F14 (OpenSUSE will have GCC 4.5 in 11.3 out soon)

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:02 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 08:40 +0200, Thomas Spura wrote:
>> Am Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:34:02 -0400
>> schrieb David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:
>>
>> > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 01:57 +0800, Chen Lei wrote:
>> > > 2010/6/22 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:
>> > > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:19 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>> > > >> I'm interested in python2.7 as a feature for F14.  This will
>> > > >> provide backports of some nice python3 features, but will work
>> > > >> for those needing python2 environments.  Many libraries are not
>> > > >> available for python3 yet.
>> > > >
>> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7
>> > > >
>> > > > I've been working on it (though have been on holiday for a week)
>> > > >
>> > > > I hope to have the latest upstream 2.7 release candidate in
>> > > > rawhide later this week.  This will require a rebuild of all
>> > > > Python modules.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > Why not rebuild all python modules along with gcc 4.5? It may avoid
>> > > of rebuild python-related packages twice?
>> >
>> > Is there a Fedora feature page for gcc 4.5?  I briefly searched, but
>> > didn't find one.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure that building things twice is a waste: if there are bugs,
>> > having intermediate builds may help us determine whether the problem
>> > relates to the Python or the GCC revision bump.  It may be simpler to
>> > do a full rebuild of anything with:
>> >   Requires: python(abi) = 2.6
>> > as soon as python 2.7 hits rawhide.
>> >
>> > Is there a good (automated) way of doing this?
>>
>> I guess yes:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_Rebuild_SOP
>>
>> It just needs to get modified to work on python(abi) = 2.6 only and not
>> on all packages.
>
> Thanks, that's a great help - I hadn't seen that page.  Looks like an
> excellent starting point.
>
> We need to look at all built (sub)packages with a requires of
> python(abi) = 2.6, figure out the set of src.rpms they come from, and
> we'll want to rebuild those once 2.7 is in f-14 in Koji.
>
>
> Dave
>
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