Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 23 15:04, Yaakov S wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I've opted for using the union of previous and curr requirements but > > that's not really too great either. This is one of many places where > > we could use a real package manager. > > And you're

Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:04:02PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I've opted for using the union of previous and curr requirements but >> that's not really too great either. This is one of many places where >> we could use a real pa

Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've opted for using the union of previous and curr requirements but > that's not really too great either. This is one of many places where > we could use a real package manager. And you're not the only one. The problem with that is

Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:51:58PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 07:20 -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >> Done. >> >> However, if a user downgrades from python-2.6.5-2 to python-2.5.5-1, >> then the ncurses dependency will not be correct -- it should be >> libncurses10 instead

Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 07:20 -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > Done. > > However, if a user downgrades from python-2.6.5-2 to python-2.5.5-1, > then the ncurses dependency will not be correct -- it should be > libncurses10 instead of libncursesw10. That's a general problem with setup: it doesn't allow

Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:48:15AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > (Jason: libffi4 is missing from python's requires:, and libncurses9 is > still listed instead of libncursesw10. I fixed these on sourceware; > please be sure to fix your local copy as well.) Done. However, if a user do

Case resolved (was: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result)

2010-06-23 Thread Kay Drangmeister
Hi, Am 23.06.2010, 10:48 Uhr, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : cygcheck /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_ctypes.dll Sorry, did not know that command, $ cygcheck /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_ctypes.dll C:\Utilities\cygwin\lib\python2.6\lib-dynload\_ctypes.dll C:\Utilities\cygwin\bin\libpython2.

Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:37 +0200, Kay Drangmeister wrote: > Hi. > > I updated cygwin a day ago and thus upgraded from python 2.5 to python 2.6. > Now the eclipse integration (pydev plugin) does no longer work correctly, > I drilled down the problem to the issue that ctypes can

Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

2010-06-23 Thread Kay Drangmeister
Hi. I updated cygwin a day ago and thus upgraded from python 2.5 to python 2.6. Now the eclipse integration (pydev plugin) does no longer work correctly, I drilled down the problem to the issue that ctypes cannot be imported correctly. (This worked with python 2.5.) (Starting up a cygwin-bash

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-04-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-04-27 17:01, Jason Tishler wrote: I'm ready to release python-2.6.5-1 as experimental. How long should the module maintainers be given to transition their modules to Python 2.6? Is 3 months reasonable? I would like to add the transition date to my release announcement. One one

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-04-27 Thread Jason Tishler
being smooth. I'm ready to release python-2.6.5-1 as experimental. How long should the module maintainers be given to transition their modules to Python 2.6? Is 3 months reasonable? I would like to add the transition date to my release announcement. Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http:

Re: Python 2.6 status

2010-04-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-04-20 18:27, Dave Korn wrote: On 19/04/2010 20:44, Jason Tishler wrote: 2. Yaakov recently created a libffi patch that I haven't had a chance to test yet. Please CC me into this discussion. I've put a lot of work into fixing libffi in GCC, and then porting the patches to upstream

Re: Python 2.6 status

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 19/04/2010 20:44, Jason Tishler wrote: > 2. Yaakov recently created a libffi patch that I haven't had a chance to > test yet. Please CC me into this discussion. I've put a lot of work into fixing libffi in GCC, and then porting the patches to upstream libffi; I'd like to know if there's any

RE: Python 2.6 status

2010-04-19 Thread Hugh Davis
Jason >I would like to release an experimental Cygwin Python 2.6 and then >resolve the above (IMO) minor issues in a follow-up release. Any >objections? That sounds great to me. Thanks Hugh -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwi

Re: Python 2.6 status

2010-04-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Hugh, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:20:37AM -0600, Hugh Davis wrote: > The last postings regarding Python 2.6 mentioned needing a coordinated > effort with all the packages that have dependencies on python. Is > there a status on how this effort is coming? Any estimate on when an > exp

Python 2.6 status

2010-04-19 Thread Hugh Davis
The last postings regarding Python 2.6 mentioned needing a coordinated effort with all the packages that have dependencies on python. Is there a status on how this effort is coming? Any estimate on when an experimental or final package might be available? Thanks Hugh -- Problem reports

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-02-12 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:49:44PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 12/02/2010 13:11, Jason Tishler wrote: > > 3. I changed "requires" in tkinter.hint as per #1 above. > > Ports' Tcl/Tk is X11, where the distro's is Win32-based, so the distro > version must still use the latter. Not

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-02-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 12/02/2010 13:11, Jason Tishler wrote: I've started to make some progress in releasing Python 2.5 and 2.6 for Cygwin 1.7. I've decided to switch to cygport, so I was hoping you could review my work and answer another question. Note I used your python-2.5.4-10.cygport from cygwin-ports SVN as

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-02-12 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:23:46PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 27/01/2010 13:34, Jason Tishler wrote: > >I prefer the above approach. However, what happens if 2.7 is > >released during the 2.5 to 2.6 transition period? > > 2.7 is currently holding at alpha2. The 2.7 release sch

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 27/01/2010 13:34, Jason Tishler wrote: I prefer the above approach. However, what happens if 2.7 is released during the 2.5 to 2.6 transition period? 2.7 is currently holding at alpha2. The 2.7 release schedule[1] shows that 2.7 final is due in June, and even if it's on time, it could be

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-27 Thread Jason Tishler
[snip] > >What do you propose? Should I release a Python 2.6 as experimental, > >use alternatives, or another approach? > > [snip] > So if we keep with only one 2.x version at a time, then 2.6.4 as > experimental is probably the best bet, with a clear schedule to > mai

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
54 You think that's a lot? Ports has another two to three *hundred* on top of that. That's why I want this to be coordinated. What do you propose? Should I release a Python 2.6 as experimental, use alternatives, or another approach? That depends, primarily, if we intend on support m

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Jason Tishler
I didn't realize there were so many Cygwin packages dependent on Python: $ wget -q -O - http://mirror.nyi.net/cygwin/setup.ini | \ grep '^requires:.* python' setup.ini | wc -l 54 > so I hope that we can coordinate this in order to have a smooth > transition. What

Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Jason, What are your plans for upgrading the distro Python to 2.6? I'm finally starting to see some programs require 2.6 now, so I think the time has finally come that to consider an upgrade. Of course, any upgrade to Python affects a lot of packages, so I hope that we can coordinate this i

Re: python 2.6

2009-07-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 26/01/2009 09:20, Jason Tishler wrote: I don't know, but building Python 2.6 with openssl support causes the treading related operations to core dump. Maybe this particular code path tickles a problem in Cygwin? For some reason, Python 2.5.2 and 3.0 do not exhibit the same behavior.

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-26 Thread Jason Tishler
t; related problems? > > Testing it now, I'm seeing the same results as you. What exactly is > the correlation between openssl and threads? I don't know, but building Python 2.6 with openssl support causes the treading related operations to core dump. Maybe this particular cod

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jason Tishler wrote: > Yaakov, did you have openssl-devel installed when you built Python > 2.6.1? Yes, that is clearly indicated in the documentation. > If so, are you able to run the regression test [2] without threading > related problems? Test

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-21 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:12:58PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > I know of another user who does not have this problem too. I noticed > that both of these users do not have openssl-devel installed. As an > experiment, I removed the openssl-devel package and built a completely > new Pytho

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-13 Thread George Ciobanu
Jason Tishler wrote: George, are you willing to install openssl-devel, build a completely new Python, run the regression test [2], and report back your findings to the list? After I've installed openssl-dev and rebuilt from scratch Python. I could see both error conditions: "sem_init: Resou

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-13 Thread Jason Tishler
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:17:01AM +0200, George Ciobanu wrote: > First of all, sorry for breaking the thread, but I'm not a subscriber > to this list. Please cc me on the next email. > > Just wanted to let you know that I don't see the issue you are > describing in my environment when running "ma

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 George Ciobanu wrote: > My run blocks at test_httpservers, but I suspect this is because I > haven't been able to compile it fully. I've traced this problem to > graminit.o which contains the missing symbol, but I haven't had the time > to look in de

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-12 Thread George Ciobanu
Hi Jason, First of all, sorry for breaking the thread, but I'm not a subscriber to this list. Please cc me on the next email. Just wanted to let you know that I don't see the issue you are describing in my environment when running "make test". I've attached the cygcheck info. My run blocks

Re: python 2.6

2009-01-12 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:58:37PM +0200, George Ciobanu wrote: > Is there a plan to move a newer version of python, such as 2.6? > > Has anyone tried to incorporate it so far? Yes, I started to package Python 2.6.1 and 3.0 before the holidays. Unfortunately, I ran into problems with Python 2.6.1

python 2.6

2009-01-10 Thread George Ciobanu
Hi, Is there a plan to move a newer version of python, such as 2.6? Has anyone tried to incorporate it so far? Thanks, George -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.