On 6/23/06 12:14 PM, "Mihai Ibanescu"
<misa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:12:42AM -0400, ? Michael Weiner wrote:
>> On 6/23/06 9:40 AM, "Mihai Ibanescu" <misa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've put together some python 2.5 (beta 1) packages. You can grab them
from:
>>>
>>>
http://people.redhat.com/misa/rpms/python-2.5-rawhide/
>>>
>>> (yum repos).
>>>
>>>
>>> The packages should install cleanly side by side with the standard python
>>> 2.4.3 packages. Applications will continue to use 2.4 unless you explicitly
>>> invoke python25 or python2.5 (or your #! line says python2.5).
>>>
>>> If you want to see a glimpse of what is coming up in the python world, go
>>> ahead and check the packages out.
>>>
>>> If there is interest, I can produce packages for FC5 too.
>>
>> Thank you Misa, the source RPM builds fine for fc5, just a question for you
>> though out of curiosity, what is the purpose of the japanese site-package?
>
> Here's the module's descrption:
>
> DESCRIPTION = """\
> This package provides Unicode codecs that make Python aware
> of Japanese character encodings such as EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and
> ISO-2022-JP. By using this package, Japanese characters can be
> treated as a character string instead of a byte sequence."""
>
> I haven't had much experience with it myself, it's been in the python
package
> before I took over. Here's when and why they got in:
>
>
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66352
Misa -
For some reason, even logged in, I am getting an access denied to that bz
ticket - can you think of any reason why??
It's marked internal only. The initial bug report is:
Description of problem:
Japanese codecs by Tamito Kajiyama is very useful and popular.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to use Japanese with python2.2 in RHL
2.It lacks Japanese Codecs..
3.
Comment #1 from Trond is:
Added to python-2.2.1-9
Looking back, what we should have done was to build python-japanese as a
separate package, but this is history now. Maybe with python 2.5 we should
split it.
Misa