Re: [Pydev-code] Origin of various python files in PyDev

[Fabio Z. <fa...@gm...>]

On 4/5/07, Igor Foox <if...@re...> wrote:
>
> Hi Fabio,
>
> I'm packaging PyDev for Fedora and one of the issues that came up was
> the origin and licensing of some of the python files that come with
> PyDev. I was hoping that you'd be able to help me out in
> understanding what these files are used for and wether it's OK to use
> the versions that are already in Fedora.
>
> org.python.pydev.jython/Lib contains 125 files, of them 112 seem to
> come from the python distribution, 19 seem to come from the jython
> distribution, with 11 of them being shared. These 11 have some
> differences among them. The other 5 files seem to be from older
> distributions of python (older than 2.5) and no longer exist in 2.5.


All beneath org.python.pydev.jython/Lib come from jython 2.1. I just
extracted it and bundled it in pydev (the jython guys probably have taken
some of them from python).

My question is, what versions of Python/Jython are these files from
> and what is their use in PyDev? Would it be safe for me to link these
> files with the files that come with the stock Python 2.5 or Jython
> 2.2beta1 distributions?


I don't think it's really safe to change those files, as it could break some
things... that internal jython distribution is actually only used for jython
scripting inside of pydev, but those scripts would have to be re-checked if
an upgrade is done (I'd rather only do that update once jython 2.2 is
stable).

Similarly, the files in org.python.pydev/PySrc. Some of them are
> clearly developed specifically for pydev, but some others seem to
> come from elsewhere.


The files from org.python.pydev/PySrc/ThirdParty are either from Bycicle
repair man or ctypes (they are distributed in pydev, and executed under a
separate shell).

Cheers,

Fabio