python 2.5 (beta 1) packages for rawhide

[• Michael Weiner]

On 6/23/06 12:14 PM, "Mihai Ibanescu" <misa at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:12:42AM -0400, ? Michael Weiner wrote:
>> On 6/23/06 9:40 AM, "Mihai Ibanescu" <misa at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I've put together some python 2.5 (beta 1) packages. You can grab them from:
>>> 
>>> http://people.redhat.com/misa/rpms/python-2.5-rawhide/
>>> 
>>> (yum repos).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The packages should install cleanly side by side with the standard python
>>> 2.4.3 packages. Applications will continue to use 2.4 unless you explicitly
>>> invoke python25 or python2.5 (or your #! line says python2.5).
>>> 
>>> If you want to see a glimpse of what is coming up in the python world, go
>>> ahead and check the packages out.
>>> 
>>> If there is interest, I can produce packages for FC5 too.
>> 
>> Thank you Misa, the source RPM builds fine for fc5, just a question for you
>> though out of curiosity, what is the purpose of the japanese site-package?
> 
> Here's the module's descrption:
> 
> DESCRIPTION = """\
> This package provides Unicode codecs that make Python aware
> of Japanese character encodings such as EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and
> ISO-2022-JP.  By using this package, Japanese characters can be
> treated as a character string instead of a byte sequence."""
> 
> I haven't had much experience with it myself, it's been in the python package
> before I took over. Here's when and why they got in:
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66352

Misa - 

For some reason, even logged in, I am getting an access denied to that bz
ticket - can you think of any reason why??

Thanks in advance
Michael