Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-14 Thread Bill Janssen
s...@pobox.com wrote: > Now that I think about it, it might not be sufficient to just hide those > directories from the environment. The Python setup.py file has > unconditional hard-coded references to /sw, /opt/local and /usr/local. That I added that to my virus scanner: check any setup.py fi

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147 ready for pronouncement and merging

2010-04-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 15, 2010, at 08:33 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >Brett Cannon wrote: >> And just a quick suggestion: can we standardize what >> imp.source_to_path() and friend are supposed to return if the >> interpreter doesn't support bytecode? I will probably have to rely on >> that for something so it would

Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bill Janssen writes: > > Fink or MacPorts are often a practical necessity. > > Fink is deadly, MacPorts much more benign, in my experience. Which is > several years out-of-date, before I realized I didn't need either one of > them, and before the UNIX community started adding configure patc

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Greg Ewing wrote: > Michael Foord wrote: >> Building Python requires, I believe, the XCode development tools to be >> installed. Even then, building a full version of Python - with *all* >> the C extensions that are part of a Python release - is not a trivial >> task. > > What's non-trivial about

Re: [Python-Dev] patch for review: __import__ documentation

2010-04-14 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > I see the confusion. I think Martin meant more about open issues that > required discussion, not simply issues that had a patch ready to go. I'm curious - if one isn't supposed to ping the mailing list every time, how does one ask the tracker "

Re: [Python-Dev] patch for review: __import__ documentation

2010-04-14 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > I see the confusion. I think Martin meant more about open issues that > required discussion, not simply issues that had a patch ready to go. Ach. I hit 'send' too soon. I also wanted to say: it seemed quite clear to me that Martin specifical

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