rfc: python2.7 for F14

[Thomas Spura]

Am Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:34:02 -0400
schrieb David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:

> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 01:57 +0800, Chen Lei wrote:
> > 2010/6/22 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:
> > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:19 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > >> I'm interested in python2.7 as a feature for F14.  This will
> > >> provide backports of some nice python3 features, but will work
> > >> for those needing python2 environments.  Many libraries are not
> > >> available for python3 yet.
> > >
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7
> > >
> > > I've been working on it (though have been on holiday for a week)
> > >
> > > I hope to have the latest upstream 2.7 release candidate in
> > > rawhide later this week.  This will require a rebuild of all
> > > Python modules.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > Why not rebuild all python modules along with gcc 4.5? It may avoid
> > of rebuild python-related packages twice?
> 
> Is there a Fedora feature page for gcc 4.5?  I briefly searched, but
> didn't find one.
> 
> I'm not sure that building things twice is a waste: if there are bugs,
> having intermediate builds may help us determine whether the problem
> relates to the Python or the GCC revision bump.  It may be simpler to
> do a full rebuild of anything with:
>   Requires: python(abi) = 2.6
> as soon as python 2.7 hits rawhide.
> 
> Is there a good (automated) way of doing this?

I guess yes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_Rebuild_SOP

It just needs to get modified to work on python(abi) = 2.6 only and not
on all packages.

	Thomas