On 12. 11. 19 14:18, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 12. 11. 19 14:00, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 05. 11. 19 v 16:03 Ben Cotton napsal(a):
>> == Summary ==
>> Python 3 traditionally in Fedora was built with a shared library
>> libpython3.?.so and the final binary was dynamically linked against
>> that shared library. This change is about creating the static library
>> and linking the final python3 binary against it, as it provides
>> significant performance improvement, up to 27% depending on the
>> workload. The static library will not be shipped. The shared library
>> will continue to exist in a separate subpackage. In essence, python3
>> will no longer depend on libpython.
>
> It seems that we have one group of people who prefer speed and another group
> of people who prefer saved space.
>
> Instead of focusing on a swiss-knife to satisfy everybody (which will not
> work), can we have python3-static **and** python3-dynamic (*) packages and let
> users decide which one will be installed and handle `/usr/bin/python3` using
> `alternatives(8)`?
> Then FESCO can "only" decide which one will be the default. And that is far
> less controversial than deciding whether you will be forced to use a
> time-saving or space-saving solution.
While I realize that this might actually be a clever thing to do, as the Python
maintainer, I don't want this for various reasons. Most importantly, it means we
need to to "support" twice that many Python interpreters.
It would also create a problem in RPM requirements.
Suppose a package need /usr/bin/python3.8 to be dynamically linked. How do I
express that? It would need to harcode some kind of
/usr/libexec/python3.8-dynamic? Would this require custom shebangs... etc.? I
really don't want to go that way. It's bad on RHEL 8 already, with
"platform-python".
Note that this is my personal opinion, not a team opinion.
I've confirmed this with the team. We are not going to do this, sorry.
We either do the change or don't. I'm personally fine with both options.
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