Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Christian Heimes wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> As Jesse points out, some of that robustness comes from long-standing >> bugs in the core getting fixed as a result of the addition of the >> multiprocessing unit tests to the standard library test suite. >> >> Not trying to discourage the project, j

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread skip
Christian> I like to make as much code of the trunk version compatible Christian> with 2.5 and 2.4 as possible. Let's see how far we can get Christian> with a bunch of macros and #ifdefs. I'll follow your lead. ;-) Skip ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread skip
Jesse> Do we want to start a google code project for this given all Jesse> three of us are interested in this? :) Maybe the svn repo could grow a backports sibling of sandbox. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread skip
Jesse> I've not used svn.python.org for personal side/projects - also, Jesse> ideally the back port would be stand-alone and package-index Jesse> installable I wouldn't call this really a personal/side project. OTOH, firing up a Google Code project means you can admit project develop

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread skip
Christian> Oh h... Are you able to recall a list of the most important Christian> bug fixes? Maybe we can get the bug fixes into 2.5.3 before Christian> it's too late. Maybe doing the modest amount of translation required of the 2.6 unit tests so they run under 0.52 would help. See

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Jesse> I've not used svn.python.org for personal side/projects - also, >Jesse> ideally the back port would be stand-alone and package-index >Jesse> installable > > I wouldn't call this really a personal/side project. OTOH

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2008-10-17 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/10/08 - 10/17/08) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 2104 open (+21) / 13859 closed (+19) / 15963 total (+40) Open issues with patches: 689 Average

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-17 Thread Christian Heimes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian> Oh h... Are you able to recall a list of the most important Christian> bug fixes? Maybe we can get the bug fixes into 2.5.3 before Christian> it's too late. Maybe doing the modest amount of translation required of the 2.6 unit tests so they run un

[Python-Dev] Old green snake icon on Windows

2008-10-17 Thread Gregor Lingl
I've installed the new Python 2.6 for windows (Windows-installer) on several machines among them a new one which has never seen Python before and all these installations show the old fashioned green snake logo (from Python 2.3 or before, I think) in the automatically created menu-entries. Has any

Re: [Python-Dev] Old green snake icon on Windows

2008-10-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Has anybody else observed this? Yes, see http://bugs.python.org/issue4019 > What could be the reason for this? I forgot to invoke nmake in the appropriate directory. > Is this intentional, and if so what is the intention? It's not intentional. > Should this be posted to the issue-tracker N