*.py packaging, again

[Jeff Johnson]

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).

73 de Jeff