[Fedora-packaging] purpose of ruby(abi), python(abi), etc

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Dec 21, 2012 2:53 AM, "Miroslav Suchý" <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/20/2012 01:43 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>>
>> There's also the fact that the ABI for the bytecode that gets generated
>> at build time is specific to each x.y series of python releases.
>
>
> Well it is even specific for each architecture and we do not mind to flag
such packages as noarch. I mean that .pyc generated on i686 is different
from x86_64 version.
> However I'm not sure how much those two are compatible.
>

This is incorrect.  Python bytecode is arch independent.  The .pyc files
from one compilation are different from a second compilation out its true.
But this is because a timestamp is embedded in the bytecode cache files
(.pyc) so that python can tell whether a .pyc or a .py should be used when
it finds both on disk.

-Toshio

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