Bug#588944: python-xpcom: xpcom.so failed to be built for python2.5

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Jul 14 12:00:24 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:49:55AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> > python-2.6 is now the default,
> 
>  ... but there are packages out there which still haven't yet been
> built for 2.6!

And that's unfortunate, but that's why it's called a transition.

> > and python-xpcom can't provide versions
> > for several python environments at the same time.
> 
>  ok, that's why i mentioned the idea of "python-xpcom-2.5".

It's too complicated to build for 2 different versions of python to bother.

Enventually, with pyxpcom out of the mozilla tree, it should become
easier, though.

Mike





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