Re: [Python-Dev] Should a change in search order of directories in setup.py be backported?

2008-02-02 Thread skip
Brett> [fix setup.py search order] Brett> But should this be backported? +1. Seems like a bug to me. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.o

[Python-Dev] Should a change in search order of directories in setup.py be backported?

2008-02-02 Thread Brett Cannon
I found out that the directories listed in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS were being added in reverse order in setup.py. That meant having ``-I/foo -I/bar`` was searching /bar first. I fixed setup.py in the trunk so that the declared order if followed instead. But should this be backported? It will change

Re: [Python-Dev] Any tips to tell sprinter at PyCon about developing on Windows?

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Heimes
Brett Cannon wrote: > Anyway, to make the tutorial as useful as possible I need to worry > about Windows users. But being an OS X/UNIX user, I don't know how to > help these people. =) As or right now I am going to point them to the > readme.txt file in PCbuild for build instructions. But I don't k

[Python-Dev] Any tips to tell sprinter at PyCon about developing on Windows?

2008-02-02 Thread Brett Cannon
This year at PyCon, sprint coaches are giving tutorials up to three hours long the night before sprinting starts. Being the sprint coach on the core means that I get to be that person for the core. Here is to hoping people wait for me for dinner that night. Anyway, to make the tutorial as useful a

[Python-Dev] A word of warning against using sqlite3 from MacPorts

2008-02-02 Thread Brett Cannon
I was running the test suite today and I was getting a segfault in test_sqlite. That seemed odd since I had not seen any issues on any buildbots. And running the test independently was fine. Noticing that sqlite 3.5.5 was recently available I had MacPorts update. Unfortunately this didn't fix thin

Re: [Python-Dev] Python on non IEEE-754 platforms: plea for information.

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Heimes
Mark Dickinson wrote: > Thank you: a very useful thread. From what little information I'm turning > up on Google, it looks as though most of these devices---if they support > floating-point at all---provide some reasonably close approximation to IEEE > 754 floats (possibly emulated in software).