Re: [Python-Dev] New work-in-progress bisection tool for the Python test suite (in regrtest)

2017-06-27 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > Are you testing for refleaks with gui enabled? Yes; the refleak builders are running on my Gentoo and Windows workers, both of which (should have, at least) GUI available and enabled. However, I have caught Xvfb not running properly on the G

Re: [Python-Dev] New work-in-progress bisection tool for the Python test suite (in regrtest)

2017-06-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/27/2017 8:39 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: 2017-06-27 7:33 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka : You could make it just a submodule in the test package. ./python -m test.bisect -R 3:3 test_os I like the idea :-) I proposed a PR which was approved by Yury Selivanov, and so I just merged it! It me

Re: [Python-Dev] New work-in-progress bisection tool for the Python test suite (in regrtest)

2017-06-27 Thread Eric V. Smith
That's great, Victor. Thanks for all of your work on this. Eric. On 6/27/2017 8:39 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: 2017-06-27 7:33 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka : You could make it just a submodule in the test package. ./python -m test.bisect -R 3:3 test_os I like the idea :-) I proposed a PR w

Re: [Python-Dev] New work-in-progress bisection tool for the Python test suite (in regrtest)

2017-06-27 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-06-27 7:33 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka : > You could make it just a submodule in the test package. > > ./python -m test.bisect -R 3:3 test_os I like the idea :-) I proposed a PR which was approved by Yury Selivanov, and so I just merged it! It means that you can now play with "./python -m

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal for C++ metaclasses

2017-06-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Heh, I'm not totally surprised -- I took Python's metaclass design from a book named Putting Metaclasses to Work, by Ira R. Forman and Scott H. Danforth ( https://www.amazon.com/Putting-Metaclasses-Work-Ira-Forman/dp/0201433052). The book describes a custom metaclass extension to C++ supporting met

[Python-Dev] Proposal for C++ metaclasses

2017-06-27 Thread Steve Dower
Thought this might be interesting for those of us who live deeper in the language than most – this is the formal proposal to add metaclasses to C++. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p0707r0.pdf Given the differences between Python and C++, it’s obviously got a different a

Re: [Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?)

2017-06-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Small enhancement: I added Python 3.5 support to blurb with the help of Serhiy Storchaka ;-) Victor 2017-06-25 10:33 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou : > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:37:46 -0700 > Larry Hastings wrote: >> On 06/24/2017 09:14 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: >> > Not only core developers make PRs f

Re: [Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?)

2017-06-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 June 2017 at 07:49, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 at 01:34 Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> So we have to rely on contributors to make the PR >> merge-ready by themselves... which means spending some time guiding >> them through the oh-so-exciting steps necessary to add the right >> Mis