Review of kdev-python for move to extragear

[Sven Brauch]

Hello!

Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to use an external version
of python. The official parser does not provide some of the
information which is required for proper static analysis; upstream
refused to accept my patches changing what would have been needed to
make it work (see http://bugs.python.org/issue10769). Stripping the
parser out of the python package is very difficult, since it relies on
PyObject data structures. Writing (and maintaining!) a custom parser
would mean far more trouble than updating this one.

Security fixes to the *parser* should be extremely rare. Other fixes
are not relevant, since none of the runtime stuff is actually being
used by kdev-python (just the parser).

Greetings,
Sven

2012/12/6 Pino Toscano <pino at kde.org>:
> Alle giovedì 6 dicembre 2012, Sven Brauch ha scritto:
>> If you find any issues, please tell me so I can fix them as quickly
>> as possible.
>
> The embedded (and modified) copy of python 2.7.1 does not seem a good
> idea... is there *really* no way to use an external (lib)python?
> It seems python gets some CVE from time to time, so this would impose an
> extra burden on packagers (and self-compiling users which need to patch
> and upgrade on their own).
>
> --
> Pino Toscano