[maemo-developers] Re: Pushing optified Python libs

[From: Mikko Vartiainen]

> This is bad manner and utterly evil.
> 
> User _applications_ should be in user/* categories. (Basically everything
> you want the end-user to see and be able to uninstall) Everything else
> should never be in user.
 
There is or is going to be user/hidden category

http://maemo.gitorious.org/hildon-application-manager/mainline/commit/f7b4542b3c77114a95e2803708cec8eeff3409f7

> The easiest way to update the python libraries for now is to either
> promote an application depending (>= the new version) or ping me to
> manually push them through.

It's the "easiest" way but at the same time it's
practically impossible or at least very hard for
such libraries as python. 

This thread is a good reference for python updating difficulties
http://maemo.org/community/maemo-developers/qa_process_for_non_user--packages_and_how_application_manager_handles_upgrades-was-re-extras-devel--extras-testing_auto-promotion_not_working/

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Mikko Vartiainen