*.py packaging, again

[Artur Wroblewski]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Artur Wroblewski wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> We lose:
>>> - a little bit of the disk space
>>> - some 'purity' some people see in not distributing 'sources'
>>
>> IMHO, it was not about purity but quite practical aspect of
>> file distribution (src vs. bin) - we treated byte compiled files
>> for Java and Python the same way, no src allowed.
>>
>
> All depends on what you want to emphasize in the comparison.
>
> E.g. man pages are generated and cached and none is
> asking for support from RPM for handling "ownership"
> and integrity of the generated man pages. The ached aspects
> of __pycache__ aren't that different (but are executable so
> the audit is more complex than for data files).

Sure. I just re-stated our approach we took in the past.

Best regards,

w