Re: [Python-Dev] What's New text on future maintenance

2010-05-06 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/6/2010 9:50 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: FYI: I've just added the text below to the "What's New" document for 2.7. I wanted to describe how 2.7 will probably be maintained, but didn't want to write anything that sounded like an iron-clad guarantee of a maintenance timespan. Does this text seem

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New text on future maintenance

2010-05-06 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/5/6 A.M. Kuchling : > FYI: I've just added the text below to the "What's New" document for > 2.7.  I wanted to describe how 2.7 will probably be maintained, but > didn't want to write anything that sounded like an iron-clad guarantee > of a maintenance timespan.  Does this text seem like a rea

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New text on future maintenance

2010-05-06 Thread Ben Finney
"A.M. Kuchling" writes: > FYI: I've just added the text below to the "What's New" document for > 2.7. I wanted to describe how 2.7 will probably be maintained, but > didn't want to write anything that sounded like an iron-clad guarantee > of a maintenance timespan. Does this text seem like a reas

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New text on future maintenance

2010-05-06 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:50 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > FYI: I've just added the text below to the "What's New" document for > 2.7.  I wanted to describe how 2.7 will probably be maintained, but > didn't want to write anything that sounded like an iron-clad guarantee > of a maintenance timespan.  D

[Python-Dev] What's New text on future maintenance

2010-05-06 Thread A.M. Kuchling
FYI: I've just added the text below to the "What's New" document for 2.7. I wanted to describe how 2.7 will probably be maintained, but didn't want to write anything that sounded like an iron-clad guarantee of a maintenance timespan. Does this text seem like a reasonable set of statements? --amk

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base

2010-05-06 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 08:09, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 5 May, 2010, at 22:56, Brett Cannon wrote: > > I am done running the analysis over trunk. I will not svnmerge these > changes into py3k as the amount of time and effort that would take equates > to running the static analyzer again just b

Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, > Who lives close enough to Ohio to make it to PyOhio this summer? I want > to use PyOhio to create new Python devs (including myself), but I need > some existing ones to seed the process. I'm not really answering your question (I'm very far from Ohio), but a good way to start up withou

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base

2010-05-06 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 5 May, 2010, at 22:56, Brett Cannon wrote: > I am done running the analysis over trunk. I will not svnmerge these changes > into py3k as the amount of time and effort that would take equates to running > the static analyzer again just before 3.2 is released and possibly catching > more chan

Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-06 Thread Doug Hellmann
What an excellent idea! We should have these at *every* regional conference. Doug On May 6, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Catherine Devlin wrote: Hey, everybody... I'm Catherine, a database administrator who makes up excuses to write Python instead. I'm not actually here as a core developer, but as

[Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-06 Thread Catherine Devlin
Hey, everybody... I'm Catherine, a database administrator who makes up excuses to write Python instead. I'm not actually here as a core developer, but as somebody who hopes to become a developer and recruit some more, which brings me to my question: Who lives close enough to Ohio to make it to Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: broken mailing list links in PEP(s?)

2010-05-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 05, 2010, at 11:35 AM, James Y Knight wrote: >And of course if you're paying attention, you can fix the mbox file >(quoting "From" etc) such that it generates the same numbers as it did >the first time. Mailman even has a command for this (I feel like an Apple commercial). You should

Re: [Python-Dev] Did I miss the decision to untabify all of the C code?

2010-05-06 Thread Victor Stinner
Le jeudi 06 mai 2010 02:59:26, Eric Smith a écrit : > I grant you that it's a largely a mechanized change (except for the "a > posteriori manual intervention" part), but still. Attached patches are the "manual interventation" parts. 99% of the whole patch only changes the indentation. There is ju

Re: [Python-Dev] Did I miss the decision to untabify all of the C code?

2010-05-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Alexandre Vassalotti peadrop.com> writes: > > Since 2.7 is likely the last release of the 2.x series, wouldn't it > more productive to spend time improving it instead of wasting time on > minor details like indentation? We occasionally waste time on minor details such as code indentation, docum

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base

2010-05-06 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mardi 04 mai 2010 07:12:32, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > > Will changing the indentation of source files to 4 space indents break > > patches on the bug tracker? > > Plain patch will choke, but "patch -l" might accept them. Tested on posixmodule.c: it works :-) -- Victor Stinner http://www.ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Did I miss the decision to untabify all of the C code?

2010-05-06 Thread Victor Stinner
Le jeudi 06 mai 2010 08:17:14, Alexandre Vassalotti a écrit : > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > > Python 2.7 is in beta, but not applying such a fix now would probably > > mean that python 2.x would forever remain with the mixed tabs, since > > it would make much less se