python 2.5 (beta 1) packages for rawhide

[Mihai Ibanescu]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:17:49PM -0400, ? Michael Weiner wrote:
> 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??

It's marked internal only. The initial bug report is:

Description of problem:
Japanese codecs by Tamito Kajiyama is very useful and popular.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to use Japanese with python2.2 in RHL
2.It lacks Japanese Codecs..
3.


Comment #1 from Trond is:

Added to python-2.2.1-9



Looking back, what we should have done was to build python-japanese as a
separate package, but this is history now. Maybe with python 2.5 we should 
split it.


Misa