From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Updated patches for gunicorn Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:47:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20160918094730.GA4630@solar> References: <1473936893-20306-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> <20160918090703.GA4251@solar> <4b2ad499-a5b0-5e95-311e-779525b1ed6d@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blYhG-0003o9-LA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 05:47:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blYhD-0005EV-Fn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 05:47:38 -0400 Received: from mailrelay7.public.one.com ([91.198.169.215]:33724) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blYhD-0005EJ-37 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 05:47:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4b2ad499-a5b0-5e95-311e-779525b1ed6d@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:19:18AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Well, gunicorn is a application server for running applications written > in python. So if the application is written in Python 2, one needs to > run the application server using Python 2, too, since it does not spawn > a new interpreter-process [*]. This is why there are two packages. Okay, I see. Then I would treat it as a "library" and use the "python(2)-gunicorn" naming convention. The reason we do not do so for applications is that in general, they appear only once in the distribution (and generally it does not even matter that they are written in python). Andreas