[maemo-developers] Issues with Python and maemo-optify (was: Re: Maemo Summit /opt BOF notes...)

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:10, Anderson Lizardo
<anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org> wrote:
>
> But note that still no Python package (including applications) can
> have their executable scripts (i.e. those called directly by the
> interpreter) optified, otherwise a similar problem to optifying
> /usr/bin/python2.5 will occur.

maemo-optify could check the Depends. If it contains a Python
dependency, no optification would be done.

If they install to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages and bind mount is
done, then they'll take up no space on the rootfs. I think I prefer
the bind mount option for this reason.

Cheers,

Andrew

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