Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-22 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 21.01.2010 04:33, schrieb Ben Finney: > Georg Brandl writes: > >> But I've no intention to restrict feature releases to "every 18-24 >> months". What now? > > Now we take further discussion to the ‘python-ideas’ forum. Whoever "we" is. You can be assured I've not planned any further discuss

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Finney
Georg Brandl writes: > But I've no intention to restrict feature releases to "every 18-24 > months". What now? Now we take further discussion to the ‘python-ideas’ forum. -- \ “We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the | `\ sense and to the extent that we resp

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 20.01.2010 03:43, schrieb David Lyon: >> Barry was talking about mirrors of the python code. It is true a >> "package manager" could be developed based on a SCM, however you need >> to implement this far away from the stdlib and get traction with it >> within the community long before inclusion

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
David Lyon wrote: > On 2; Who knows what their life cycle is. CVS is pretty much > dead, and svn looks like it is on the way out. > I can't think of how anything could be better than > mercurial or bzr but I know I will be proved wrong. I believe you misunderstood what Matthieu m

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
David Lyon pythontest.org> writes: > > I think I'll have better chances with PEPs. > > Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial > and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is > no hope for even newer code to get in there. > [snip] This is python-ideas mater

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: > (Besides, git in the stdlib doesn't make much sense :). "Dulwich." ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Matthieu Brucher
> That's only two points. :-) In French, we say that several starts with 2 ;) > On 1; If that's true, I won't mention git again. I tis, you can check on the git repository (it's a mix of C, perl, shell scripts, Python, ...) > On 2; Who knows what their life cycle is. You can check on their web

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
Matthieu, >> I'd be happy to see bzr and mercurial and git all made it together >> into the stdlib for python 3. That would give a superb updating >> mechanism for python that would propel python well beyond >> the dinosaur badlands of CPAN and other languages. > > I think there are several point

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Matthieu Brucher
> I'd be happy to see bzr and mercurial and git all made it together > into the stdlib for python 3. That would give a superb updating > mechanism for python that would propel python well beyond > the dinosaur badlands of CPAN and other languages. I think there are several points that make them no

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
"David Lyon" writes: > Well using that logic, distutils is an application.. Distutils is an application, the function of which is essential to allowing sane development of Python packages. It's a special case. We need to strictly limit the number of special cases, not gleefully add to them. --

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Barry Warsaw writes: > On Jan 20, 2010, at 03:29 PM, David Lyon wrote: > >So here I am as a user doing things the 'right' way. > > Actually, you're not. It's not up to the Python community to initiate > this. If you really want this, you should engage with the relevant > DVCS communities and push

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
> "David Lyon" writes: > >> Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git >> and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even >> newer code to get in there. > > Those are applications, not libraries. Applications don't belong in the > standard library.

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
Okay, last follow up on this and then I'm going to bed. :) On Jan 20, 2010, at 03:29 PM, David Lyon wrote: >> On Jan 19, 2010, at 08:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> I'd be surprised if any of the big 3 DVCS developers would actually /want/ >> their stuff in the stdlib. > >If they ask, they'll ge

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
> On Jan 19, 2010, at 08:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > I'd be surprised if any of the big 3 DVCS developers would actually /want/ > their stuff in the stdlib. If they ask, they'll get told they're motorbike-shedding. "It's better if their users ask". So here I am as a user doing things the 'right

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 20, 2010, at 02:43 PM, David Lyon wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: >> A SCM is not a "package management system". > >Exactly. It almost makes the need for a "package management system" >pretty much obsolete if you can update your code directly from >the develo

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 21:43, David Lyon wrote: > > Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial > and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is > no hope for even newer code to get in there. > I'm not entirely sure I see why the inclusion of a SCM into the stdl

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
"David Lyon" writes: > Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git > and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even > newer code to get in there. Those are applications, not libraries. Applications don't belong in the standard library. -- \

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:43 PM, David Lyon wrote: [snip] > Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial > and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is > no hope for even newer code to get in there. Did you ever stop to think that some package authors do not wan

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > Python 3 is still modularized, still has a standard library, etc. If > you're really interested in helping with the standard library, get on > stdlib-sig, and get ready to write code and PEPs. Thank you for your direction to move these ite

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 19, 2010, at 08:09 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: >The decision to move python's source control from SVN to mercurial was >controversial enough; including 3 or more scm libraries into core >would be an intractable uphill mountain of bike sheds. I'd be surprised if any of the big 3 DVCS developers

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, David Lyon wrote: >> On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Barry wrote: > >>> So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given >>> python version using this ? >> >> In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly). > > Yeah, it just needs an implementation

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
> On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Barry wrote: >> So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given >> python version using this ? > > In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly). Yeah, it just needs an implementation. > The one thing I am unsure about, mostly because I have n

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, David Lyon wrote: >Hi Barry, > >That looks very interesting... Hi David, >So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given >python version using this ? In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly). You can use Bazaar to branch any of the 4 Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
Hi Barry, That looks very interesting... So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given python version using this ? David > I've just updated the Launchpad mirrors for the 4 active Python branches, > trunk, py3k, 2.6, and 3.1. These used to mirror the defunct Bazaar > branches > on