F-14 Branched report: 20100915 changes

[David Malcolm]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 17:37 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 12:21 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:52:50AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:46 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said: 
> > > > > > 	python-psyco-1.6-4.fc12.i686 requires libpython2.6.so.1.0
> > > > > > 	python-psyco-1.6-4.fc12.i686 requires python(abi) = 0:2.6
> > > > > 
> > > > > My understanding on this was that psyco was broken on python-2.7... Do we
> > > > > want to block this from the F14 release?
> > > > 
> > > > Does anything else require it?
> > > IIRC, eclipe-pydev did, but removed it, only using it for optimization.
> > > 
> > F14 vm:
> > % repoquery -q --whatrequires 'python-psyco' --alldeps
> > python-psyco-0:1.6-4.fc12.i686
> > 
> > So it looks safe to remove in f14.
> 
> Right. This came up for Alpha, as eclipse-pydev wound up on the media.
> As David said, it turned out to only need it for optimization, and
> nothing else needed it. psyco is not trivial to rebuild against python
> 2.7 and as of yet no-one's done the work. It would probably be best to
> block it until a python 2.7 port is available.
Upstream wrote an experimental port (and it seemed to work), but IIRC I
got the impression that they've moved on to PyPy these days.

(Bugs in this code are likely to cause random segfaults in python
processes, so I'm happy to have this be blocked)