Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
(To provide counterweight.) -On [20080320 20:44], Barry Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >We have not made a decision to move to Bazaar officially, nor have we made >a decision to even move off of Subversion. Good, because between this now and pytz the other 63 projects I follow use Subversion o

[Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Matthieu Brucher
Sorry for the double post, Jeroen :| -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 mars 2008 10:03 Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008/3/21, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wer

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Smith
Eric Smith wrote: > This proposal is to add "from __future__ import > unicode_string_literals", which would make all string literals in the > importing module into unicode objects in 2.6. I'm going to withdraw this, for 2 reasons. 1) The more I think about it, the less sense it makes. 2) Without

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, this Windows user, and I expect most, do NOT expect add-ons > (things under the /Pythonx.y tree) to show up in the add/remove list. That's an interesting counterpoint to my comments. I presume from this that you dislike (and/or neve

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 12:33 PM 3/21/2008 +, Paul Moore wrote: >On 21/03/2008, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The standard (and to me, preferable) way of dealing with such > things is to > > have an 'installation manager' that can reinstall as well as delete and > > that has a check box for variou

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Mercurial

2008-03-21 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Ralf Schmitt gmail.com> writes: > > I have also setup a mirror using mercurial: http://hgpy.de/py/It contains the 2.4, 2.5, trunk and py3k branches (in case anyone wants to compare this to bzr). I see your trunk history is stripped. For those who want the complete trunk history (back to 17 years

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20080320 19:24], Steve Holden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >We need to stop protesting that our installation tools are easy enough >and try to get behind the various platforms, be it with Windows >installers, rpms, or other support. We probably aren't doing this >because it's work nobody part

[Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
So, after having some time to absorb the Python-Dev threads about setuptools, bootstrap, and all the rest, I think I see an opportunity to let people route around the "damage" of eggs, while still making it possible for the people who want to use easy_install or to put dependencies in their set

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Joachim König
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Second, there were no uninstall tools for it, so I'd have had to > write one myself. (Zed's "easy_f'ing_uninstall" to the contrary, it > ain't easy, and I have an aversion to deleting stuff on people's > systems without knowing what will break. There's a big difference

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second, there were no uninstall tools for it, so I'd have had to > write one myself. (Zed's "easy_f'ing_uninstall" to the contrary, it > ain't easy, and I have an aversion to deleting stuff on people's > systems without

Re: [Python-Dev] Wow, I think I actually *get* it now!

2008-03-21 Thread zooko
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Hm. So it seems to me that maybe one thing that would help is a > "Setuptools Haters' Guide To Setuptools" -- that is, *short* > documentation specifically written for people who don't want to use > setuptools and want to minimize its impact on their systems. Perhaps rele

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread zooko
On Mar 20, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Robert Brewer wrote: > Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> The other tool that would be handy to have, would be one that unpacks >> eggs into standard distutils-style installation. > > Hear, hear. I'm an author of a couple libraries that need to > interoperate with others. Of th

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread skip
Joachim> I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the Joachim> files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it Joachim> created, and that have not been modified in the meantime (after Joachim> the installation). That's not sufficient. Suppose file

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 09:53 AM 3/21/2008 -0600, zooko wrote: >Um, isn't this tool called "unzip"? I have done this -- accessed the >source code -- many times, and unzip suffices. > >I don't know what else would be required in order to make an egg into >"a standard distutils-style installation". You also have to ren

Re: [Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2008-03-21 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 20 Apr, 2006, at 22:07, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Guido van Rossum wrote: This is another area where API standardization is important; as soon as modules are loaded out of a zip file, the traditional approach of looking relative to os.path.dirname(__file__) no longer works. 2. standardize on

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Phillip J. Eby schrieb: > Questions, comments... volunteers? :) I've yet to read the monster package utils thread so I can't comment on it. However I like to draw some attention to my PEP 370 http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/. It's about a site packages directory in the users home directory.

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Eric Smith schrieb: > It's not implementable because the work has to occur in ast.c (see > Py_UnicodeFlag). It can't occur later, because you need to skip the > encoding being done in parsestr(). But the __future__ import can only > be interpreted after the AST is built, at which time the enco

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Smith
Christian Heimes wrote: > Eric Smith schrieb: > > It's not implementable because the work has to occur in ast.c (see >> Py_UnicodeFlag). It can't occur later, because you need to skip the >> encoding being done in parsestr(). But the __future__ import can only >> be interpreted after the AST i

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Joachim> I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the > Joachim> files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it > Joachim> created, and that have not been modified in the meantime (after > Joachim> the installation)

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:21 AM 3/21/2008 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joachim> I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the > Joachim> files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it > Joachim> created, and that have not been modified in the meantime (after > Joachi

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-03-21 14:47, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > So, to accomplish this, we (for some value of "we") need to: > > 1. Hash out consensus around what changes or enhancements are needed > to PEP 262, to resolve the previously-listed open issues, those that > have come up since (namespace packages, depe

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread Terry Reedy
"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Paul's question: I have only installed a couple of things (and not recently) that added their own add/remove entry. But I am not sure I would have called them add-ons as opposed to independent applications writte

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Martin Aspeli
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Questions, comments... volunteers? :) This makes a lot of sense. I don't really have anything to add in terms of implementation, but I wonder if we can learn something from how apt or rpms or ports work, and how other programming languages (Ruby gems?) solve this. I

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Questions, comments... volunteers? :) Sounds good. I won't volunteer as I have neither time nor expertise to contribute much. But I'd like to see this happen, as it sounds like it would address all my issues with setuptools (and just

[Python-Dev] SVN FAQ for Windows users

2008-03-21 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
I noticed that http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#how-do-i-apply-a-patch ...does not contain instruction for Windows user willing to apply a patch starting from a .diff file. Since Tortoise SVN is the most common choice I tried to describe the steps to apply a patch by using it. This could be added in

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN FAQ for Windows users

2008-03-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Thanks Giampaolo! Totally unrelated to your posting: I wonder why http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#how-to-make-a-patch uses tee instead of > file ? Christian ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (To provide counterweight.) > > > -On [20080320 20:44], Barry Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >We have not made a decision to move to Bazaar officially, nor have we made > >a decision to even move off

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm happy to announce that we now have available for public > consumption, the Python source code for 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 available > under the Bazaar distributed version con

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heimes wrote: > > Eric Smith schrieb: > > > It's not implementable because the work has to occur in ast.c (see > >> Py_UnicodeFlag). It can't occur later, because you need to skip the > >> encoding being done

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barry Warsaw schrieb: > > > I'm happy to announce that we now have available for public > > consumption, the Python source code for 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 available > > under the Bazaar distributed version control system. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for another build slave

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> [Suggestion: perhaps we could set up a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > list for discussing buildbot administrative minutiae, rather than > polluting python-dev?] I think polluting python-dev is fine. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:06 PM 3/21/2008 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >I guess the only way to support all of these variants is >to use a filesystem based approach, e.g. by placing a file >with a special extension into some dir on sys.path. >The "database" logic could then scan sys.path for these >files, read the data

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:59 PM 3/21/2008 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: >Phillip J. Eby schrieb: > > Questions, comments... volunteers? :) > >I've yet to read the monster package utils thread so I can't comment on >it. However I like to draw some attention to my PEP 370 >http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/. It's

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to head this off, this is not a specific vote of confidence for > Bazaar. The Bazaar developers were at PyCon and both Barry and Thomas > were willing to put the time and effort to get the mirror up and going > while the Bazaar team w

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> It's not implementable because the work has to occur in ast.c (see > Py_UnicodeFlag). It can't occur later, because you need to skip the > encoding being done in parsestr(). But the __future__ import can only > be interpreted after the AST is built, at which time the encoding has > already

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-03-21 22:32, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> It's not implementable because the work has to occur in ast.c (see >> Py_UnicodeFlag). It can't occur later, because you need to skip the >> encoding being done in parsestr(). But the __future__ import can only >> be interpreted after the AST is b

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Mercurial

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see your trunk history is stripped. For those who want the complete trunk > history (back to 17 years ago!), I have my own mirror here: > http://dev.pitrou.net:8000/cpython/trunk/ Excellent! For what it's worth, hg clone took 5 minut

Re: [Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> | try: > |bytes > | except NameError: > |bytes = str > | > | somewhere, then write the code as I proposed above. > > This is exactly the sort of thing that should be and I expect will be in > the conversion docs. That expectation might be unfounded (in the sense that it might not be w

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN FAQ for Windows users

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> --- snippet --- > If you're using Windows make sure you have TortoiseSVN installed. > Right-click on the folder containing the trunk source code, expand the > TortoiseSVN submenu and select 'Apply Patch...'. Browse to the patch > file and select it, then right click on the file appearing in the

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN FAQ for Windows users

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Totally unrelated to your posting: > > I wonder why http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#how-to-make-a-patch uses tee > instead of > file ? So you can see what the patch looks like? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Mercurial

2008-03-21 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, Paul Moore gmail.com> writes: > > Excellent! For what it's worth, hg clone took 5 minutes on my PC (with > broadband access). That's faster than simply downloading the Bazaar > shared repository tarball (which took 13 minutes)! > > Are you keeping the mirror updated with respect to Subvers

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/03/2008, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to head this off, this is not a specific vote of confidence for > > Bazaar. The Bazaar developers were at PyCon and both Barry and Thomas > > were willing to p

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN FAQ for Windows users

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I then try cygwin patch, which applies the patch nicely, but messes > up the line endings while doing so. > > So in the end, I conclude that it just isn't possible to apply patches > on Windows, and log into a Linux machine to

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tend to make a repository and make a working copy for each patch in it. > The history is saved in the repository so it's efficient. OK, so just lots of copies, fair enough. Presumably just use bzr diff to create patches? Much like Sub

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/03/2008, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tend to make a repository and make a working copy for each patch in > it. > > The history is saved in the repository so it's efficient. > > OK, so just lots of

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-03-21 22:21, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 08:06 PM 3/21/2008 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> I guess the only way to support all of these variants is >> to use a filesystem based approach, e.g. by placing a file >> with a special extension into some dir on sys.path. >> The "database" logic cou

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3127 (Integer Literal Support and Syntax): %o and %b

2008-03-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been double checking the PEP 3127 implementation in py3k and the > backport I did to 2.6. The PEP says this about the % operator: > > "The string (and unicode in 2.6) % operator will have 'b' format > specifier added

[Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread skip
With all these distributed revision control systems now available (bzr, hg, darcs, svk, many more), I find I need an introduction to the concepts and advantages of repository distribution. It seems to me that it has the potential for leading to anarchy, though I can see how some things would be im

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-21 Thread Neil Hodgson
zooko: > Um, isn't this tool called "unzip"? I have done this -- accessed the > source code -- many times, and unzip suffices. The type of issue I ran into with eggs is when you get an exception with a trace that includes an egg, you can't use the normal means to look at the code. Instead y

Re: [Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all these distributed revision control systems now available (bzr, > hg, > darcs, svk, many more), I find I need an introduction to the concepts and > advantages of repository distribution. It seems to me that it has the > potenti

Re: [Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread Quentin Gallet-Gilles
Eric Raymond started a study for this specific matter recently (announced here : http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/85893). Everything is under source control here : http://thyrsus.com/hg/uvc/ HTH, Quentin On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all these dis

Re: [Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 05:17:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With all these distributed revision control systems now available (bzr, hg, > darcs, svk, many more), I find I need an introduction to the concepts and > advantages of repository distribution. It seems to me that it has the > pot

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're heading off in the wrong direction: we should not be trying > to rewrite RPM or InnoSetup in Python. > > Anything more complicated should be left to tools which are > specifically written to manage complex software setups. > > I h

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:13 PM 3/21/2008 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >On 2008-03-21 22:21, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > At 08:06 PM 3/21/2008 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> I guess the only way to support all of these variants is > >> to use a filesystem based approach, e.g. by placing a file > >> with a special exten

Re: [Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all these distributed revision control systems now available (bzr, hg, > darcs, svk, many more), I find I need an introduction to the concepts and > advantages of repository distribution. It seems to me that it has the > potenti

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN FAQ for Windows users

2008-03-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: > That never worked for me. TortoiseSVN then insists on fetching the > revisions mentioned in the patch, runs some math, and tells me that > I can't apply the patch because it is out of date (assuming it really > is, which is normally the case when I get to look at a patch)

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 21/03/2008, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tend to make a repository and make a working copy for each patch

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Benjamin Peterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 21/03/2008, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Mercurial

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/03/2008, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see your trunk history is stripped. For those who want the complete > trunk > > history (back to 17 years ago!), I have my own mirror here: > > http://dev.

Re: [Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

2008-03-21 Thread Collin Winter
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:40 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | try: > > |bytes > > | except NameError: > > |bytes = str > > | > > | somewhere, then write the code as I proposed above. > > > > This is exactly the sort of thing that should be and I expect will be i

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 tasks

2008-03-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Guido van Rossum schrieb: > Even though the more popular PyInt_ APIs are still available (even if > only as macros). THe PyInt_* macros are only available when Include/intobject.h is included explicitly. It's not in Python.h any more. > I disagree. Bad merges are already a frequent cause of insta

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-21 Thread Jonathan Lange
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, can some Bazaar expert offer a suggestion as to how a > non-developer with read-only access would best use the Bazaar > repositories to maintain a number of patches to be posted to the > tracker? > Here's what

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 tasks

2008-03-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum schrieb: > > > Even though the more popular PyInt_ APIs are still available (even if > > only as macros). > > THe PyInt_* macros are only available when Include/intobject.h is > included explicitly. I

Re: [Python-Dev] Trove classifiers

2008-03-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Oleg Broytmann wrote: > > Yes, exactly. Eric Raymond claims to be the inventor, but there are > > different voices against him: > > http://damagestudios.net/blog/2005/08/15/sourceforge-founde

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I'm making the assumption that the author(s) of PEP 262 had good > reason for including what they did, rather than assuming that we > should start the entire process over from scratch. The objections to the PEP remain the same as they were then, though: In the requirements, it says "we need",

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:41:00PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > I'm making the assumption that the author(s) of PEP 262 had good > reason for including what they did, rather than assuming that we > should start the entire process over from scratch. The goal *was* originally to provide for RPM-

Re: [Python-Dev] Adventures with x64, VS7 and VS8 on Windows

2008-03-21 Thread Gregory P. Smith
I'm following up on this thread without checking if there were other following negating a need to respond... If so, ignore as needed. +1 from me. Always build on windows into an architecture specific PCBuild/XXX directory. A bonus if the directory name matches the return value of platform.machin

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:31 AM 3/22/2008 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>I'm making the assumption that the author(s) of PEP 262 had good >>reason for including what they did, rather than assuming that we >>should start the entire process over from scratch. > >The objections to the PEP remain the same as they were

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 09:44 PM 3/21/2008 -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote: >On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:41:00PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > I'm making the assumption that the author(s) of PEP 262 had good > > reason for including what they did, rather than assuming that we > > should start the entire process over from

[Python-Dev] httplib &c. timeouts and global state

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
http://python.org/sf/2451 """ The new timeout support in 2.6 makes use of new function socket.create_connection(). socket.create_connection() provides no way to disable timeouts, other than by relying on socket.getdefaulttimeout() returning None. This is unfortunate, because it was the purpose o

[Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > With all these distributed revision control systems now available (bzr, hg, > darcs, svk, many more), I find I need an introduction to the concepts and > advantages of repository distribution. > Can someone point me to some useful content (web pages or books) > wh

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Talin
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 11:21 AM 3/21/2008 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Joachim> I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the >> Joachim> files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it >> Joachim> created, and that have not been modified in the m