[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.5, final

2005-02-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.3.5 (final). Python 2.3.5 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of the bugs squished in this r

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.5 and 2.4.1 release plans

2005-02-08 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=
Anthony Baxter wrote: I'm currently thinking about a 2.4.1 around the 23td of Feb - Martin and Fred, does this work for you? Yes. I will need to test whether my replacement of VB scripts in the installer with native DLLs works even on W95; I'm confident to complete this next week (already have the

Re: [Python-Dev] license issues with profiler.py and md5.h/md5c.c

2005-02-08 Thread Jeremy Hylton
Maybe some ambitious PSF activitst could contact Roskind and Steve Kirsch and see if they know who at Disney to talk to... Or maybe the Disney guys who were at PyCon last year could help. Jeremy On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:37:50 -0500, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Matthias Klose] > > A De

Re: [Python-Dev] license issues with profiler.py and md5.h/md5c.c

2005-02-08 Thread Tim Peters
[Matthias Klose] > A Debian user pointed out (http://bugs.debian.org/293932), that the > current license for the Python profiler is not conforming to the DFSG > (Debian free software guidelines). > > http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node829.html states > > "This permission is explicitly restr

Re: [Python-Dev] license issues with profiler.py and md5.h/md5c.c

2005-02-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
> The md5.h/md5c.c files allow "copy and use", but no modification of > the files. There are some alternative implementations, i.e. in glibc, > openssl, so a replacement should be sage. Any other requirements when > considering a replacement? > > Matthias I believe the "plan" for md5 and sh

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Lib rfc822.py,1.78,1.79

2005-02-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:35, Guido van Rossum wrote: > This would have been caught if there was a unit test validating what > the documentation says. Why aren't there unit tests for this code? I > think we need to raise the bar for "wholistic" improvements to a > module: first write a unit test if

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Lib rfc822.py,1.78,1.79

2005-02-08 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:10:49 +0100, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> @@ -399,9 +393,8 @@ > >> del self[name] # Won't fail if it doesn't exist > >> self.dict[name.lower()] = value > >> text = name + ": " + value > >> -lines = text.split("\n") > >> -

[Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Lib rfc822.py,1.78,1.79

2005-02-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
>> @@ -399,9 +393,8 @@ >> del self[name] # Won't fail if it doesn't exist >> self.dict[name.lower()] = value >> text = name + ": " + value >> -lines = text.split("\n") >> -for line in lines: >> -self.headers.append(line + "\n") >> +self.h

Re: [Python-Dev] test_codecs failing

2005-02-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Walter Dörwald wrote: Raymond Hettinger wrote: The most recent test_codecs check-in (1.19) is failing on a MSCV6.0 compilation running on WinMe: -- Ran 35 tests in 1.430s FAILED (failures=1) Traceback (most recent call last): > [.

Re: [Python-Dev] test_codecs failing

2005-02-08 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Walter_D=F6rwald?=
Raymond Hettinger wrote: The most recent test_codecs check-in (1.19) is failing on a MSCV6.0 compilation running on WinMe: -- Ran 35 tests in 1.430s FAILED (failures=1) Traceback (most recent call last): > [...] test.test_support.T

[Python-Dev] Patch review [ 981773 ] crach link c++ extension by mingw

2005-02-08 Thread Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon
Patch review [ 981773 ] crach link c++ extension by mingw When building a C++ extension for Windows using MinGW, the linking would fail due to an incorrect link command. The patch contains a solution for this problem. I could reproduce this bug with Python 2.3.5c1, but in Python 2.4 it seems to

[Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Lib rfc822.py,1.78,1.79

2005-02-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > @@ -399,9 +393,8 @@ > del self[name] # Won't fail if it doesn't exist > self.dict[name.lower()] = value > text = name + ": " + value > -lines = text.split("\n") > -for line in lines: > -self.headers.append(line + "\n")