Re: Using Py_SetPythonHome

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:53:43 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com>,        gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> please take this mail "with a grain of salt", although only a bit.

You too ;-)

> > that we should cater to the needs of people who do not provide
> > a distribution, but just a binary package.
> 
> There are not any such people.

You are talking to them.

> > I still build a lot of software from sources,
> 
> Binaries outside of package management no longer exists and they should be
> deleted ASAP if found as it is both a security hole and a too expensive
> software management issue.

On the contrary.  I trust binaries I produced myself much more than
some package downloaded from somewhere.

> > Yes, it would be great if glibc dealt with it automatically for us.
> > But what about Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Windows? Right now, there is
> > no standard cross-platform way to deal with the problem. So each
> > project is on its own. Not ideal, but still a fact that we have to
> > deal with.
> 
> Please withstand those few remaining years on those proprietary systems and do
> not try to reinvent GNU/Linux package management on top of them, that has been
> tried already uncountable times and it does not work.  These proprietary
> systems are doomed, their missing package management is a part of this fate.

I'm afraid that's a pipe dream.

I really suggest that we do not base our design decisions on such
extreme assumptions.