Re: [PATCH 0/1] Make external-python-tarball useful again

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:36 +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:28 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:09 +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > > From: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > The attached patch adds the multiprocessing module to the external Python
> > > tarball. This is quite useful as we use multiprocessing at recipe parse time
> > > now.
> > 
> > Merged into master, thanks!
> > 
> > > This raises two questions:
> > > 1) Should we do some testing around the use of multiprocessing?
> > 
> > In what way?
> 
> Sorry, what a vague comment. I meant to suggest an exception around the
> import and alternative code paths if the module can't be imported. 
> Or is it safe to assume it exists if you have Python 2.6? - in which
> case we just need to improve out Python 2.6 tests so that people can't
> run this code on older versions.

Its safe to assume it exists in standard python 2.6.

We therefore just need to improve the python 2.6 checks.

> > > 2) Who can update a new external-python-tarball to the public download?
> > 
> > Beth+me should both have access.
> 
> Cool, I'm debugging an issue with package resolution at tarball
> generation time, but once that works I'll request a build and upload.

Sounds good thanks.

Richard