python-paver upgrade

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 15:36:01 UTC 2009


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> python-paver is a program and library to make building and installing
> python modules easy.  We currently have 0.8 in F9, F10, and EPEL.  1.0
> is built for rawhide.  0.8 and 1.0 are API incompatible.  I'm going to
> update to the 1.0 version in the stable releases after it proves itself
> in rawhide due to two things:
> 
> 1) There's a number of bugs in 0.8 that won't be fixed because 1.x is
> where work is being done.
> 2) It's a mess to try to support both paver-1.0 and paver-0.8 in one
> pavement.py file.  My efforts to do so show that it's not possible to
> have all the functionality of 1.0 in 0.8.
> 
> If any project we're packaging is using paver to build and cannot
> upgrade to 1.0, let me know so I can either help with porting the
> buildscripts or start the review process on a python-paver0.8 compat
> package.
> 
paver-1.0 packages for F9/10 and EPEL5 have now been built and submitted
to the testing repos.  Once again, if you need paver-0.8, please let me
know so we can work on packaging and reviewing a compat package.

-Toshio

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