#10510 NORM Not Tri: Wikipedia should find a way to work on both F11 and F14 builds

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#10510: Wikipedia should find a way to work on both F11 and F14 builds
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 Reporter:  martin.langhoff  |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect           |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal           |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned     |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                   |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0                |   Deployment_affected:               
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 wp.so links to python libraries. The Python 2.6 to 2.7 version bump makes
 it problematic.

 Ideas -

  * Include various wp.so in different directories, and fiddle the library
 path accordingly early in activity startup.
  * Improve seek-bzip2 to read from a file (rather than stdin). Code at hg
 clone http://bitbucket.org/james_taylor/seek-bzip2 -- it can do the
 "random access to bzip2" for us.
  * Switch to pure python implementation. Downside: python-only bzlib
 decompression is likely to be very slow, and it's unlikely we'll find a
 python-to-C library that allows us to do the odd thing we do
 (uncompressing random blocks).
  * Push wp.so into Fedora somehow. Long road.

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