Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-18 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in the > distutils/command subdirectory. It looks like these are the executable stubs > used to create self-extracting zips for installation - but I am not 100% > sure. I

Re: [Python-Dev] I reverted "Add Windows App Store package" change

2018-12-07 Thread Zachary Ware
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:17 AM Steve Dower wrote: > Also for not submitting custom builds to all the buildbots (Can we still do > that? I'm not seeing any UI right now... I did run a number of test > release builds on the release machine, so I knew that was going to be okay.) The UX is not great,

Re: [Python-Dev] About multiprocessing maintainership

2019-02-04 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:39 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > What I did (*) is different: I asked to mark Davin inactive and to stop > auto-assigning him on bug tracker issues. Davin was /still/ listed in > the experts list, along with me and others. IOW, there was no "editing > out". Auto-assignment

Re: [Python-Dev] CPython on Windows ARM32

2019-02-05 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 7:37 PM Steve Dower wrote: > I also haven't reviewed the changes yet, but provided nobody is strongly > opposed to taking on a supported platform (without additional releases > on python.org), I expect I'll do a big part of the reviewing then. I'm all for the first two chan

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding test.support.safe_rmpath()

2019-02-15 Thread Zachary Ware
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:44 AM Steve Dower wrote: > That said, I'd love to have a context manager that we can use to make > this easier. Really, none of us should be having to decide "how am I > going to use a temporary location on the file system in my test", > because we should have one obviou

[Python-Dev] Re: Please do not remove random bits of information from the tutorial

2020-11-09 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:29 PM Raymond Hettinger wrote: > * FWIW, I've closely monitored the bug tracker daily for almost two decades. > We almost never get a user complaint that the tutorial is too advanced. For > the most part, it has long been of good service to users. Almost certainly >

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7.5 baking

2013-05-15 Thread Zachary Ware
> I asked some folks on the infrastructure team and the last they heard > from him was 11 April. Martin replied on issue17883 on May 10. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Python-Dev] End of the mystery "@README.txt Mercurial bug"

2013-06-26 Thread Zachary Ware
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:12 AM, wrote: >Eric V. Smith wrote: >> How would that work? How could hg purge the .bak, .orig, .rej, .old, >> etc. files? > > > hg purge (it's an extension) removes anything that isn't tracked (and not > ignored in the .hgignore): kind of distclean. > > I hope this help

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #18393: Remove use of deprecated API on OSX

2013-07-15 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:32 AM, ronald.oussoren wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ccbaf6762b54 > changeset: 84634:ccbaf6762b54 > user:Ronald Oussoren > date:Mon Jul 15 18:32:09 2013 +0200 > summary: > Issue #18393: Remove use of deprecated API on OSX > > The "Gestalt

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 453 (pip bootstrapping) ready for pronouncement?

2013-09-27 Thread Zachary Ware
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > If it lives in the source tree how are you going to provent it from existing > when someone installs on Linux? OSX? One of the BSDs? If someone is building their own Python from source--regardless of platform--they're obviously going t

Re: [Python-Dev] Have I got my hg dependencies correct?

2016-10-20 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Victor Stinner > wrote: >> >> Are you on the 2.7 branch or the default branch? >> >> You might try to cleanup your checkout: >> >> hg up -C -r 2.7 >> make distclean >> hg purge # WARNING! it removes *all*

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 branch in Mercurial?

2016-10-31 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I need to do a little 2.6 spelunking. I don't see a 2.6 branch in the output > of "hg branches". Is "hg clone v2.6.9" the proper incantation to get the > latest version (or perhaps "v2.6")? 2.6 is a closed branch, which pretty much only mea

Re: [Python-Dev] Would someone please update the profile-opt buildbot flag settings?

2016-11-20 Thread Zachary Ware
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > For http://buildbot.python.org/all/buildslaves/gps-debian-profile-opt in > particular (and any others we have using it - if any): Our new > --with-optimizations configure flag has been renamed to > --enable-optimizations to be more consist

Re: [Python-Dev] adding threaded tests to the test suite

2017-01-22 Thread Zachary Ware
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Question: I need to add a threaded test to the enum test module [1] -- is > there anything extra I > need to worry about besides the test itself? Setting or resetting or using > a tool library, etc? As far as I know, the only extras to worr

Re: [Python-Dev] adding threaded tests to the test suite

2017-01-22 Thread Zachary Ware
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Martin Panter wrote: > As I understand, @reap_threads basically does a join() on each > background thread, with a total timeout of 1 s. So since your test is > unlikely to fail between starting threads and joining them, I don’t > think you need to use @reap_threads

Re: [Python-Dev] Update on labels to be used on GitHub

2017-02-14 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 14:43 Victor Stinner > wrote: >> >> 2017-02-13 21:08 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon : >> > We now have two sets of labels for representing cherry-picking statuses: >> > "backport to N.M" and "cherry-pick for N.M". The former a

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of Python buildbots

2017-05-03 Thread Zachary Ware
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > I have been saying for several months now that I would like to set up > a Cygwin buildbot--an important step in making that platform > supportable again. I now have the infrastructure available to do so > (Windows VM on an OpenStack infrastructur

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove embedded expat library?

2017-06-09 Thread Zachary Ware
with-system-expat=yes` by default and building from externals on Windows in 3.7, and removing the bundled expat in 3.8. >> By the way, Zachary Ware is working on converting this repository to >> Git. I don't know his progress: >> - https://github.com/python/cpython-bin-deps >&

Re: [Python-Dev] Appveyor builds fail on Windows for 3.6 backports.

2017-06-23 Thread Zachary Ware
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > Example: appveyor passes for > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2335#discussion_r123724857 > > Appveyor build fails for 3.6 backport > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2359 > https://ci.appveyor.com/project/python/cpython/build/3.6

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] Is Windows XP still supported on Python 2.7?

2017-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/24/2017 5:04 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> We have a Windows XP buildbot for Python 2.7, run by David Bolen: >> http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Windows%20XP%202.7/ >> >> test_bsddb3 fails randomly on this buildbot: >> http://

Re: [Python-Dev] [RFC] Removing pure Python implementation of OrderedDict

2017-09-05 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:38 AM, INADA Naoki wrote: >> Like that, how about removing OrderedDict Pure Python implementation >> from stdlib and require it to implementation? > > -1 > > Like Antoine, I consider the pure Python implementation to be

[Python-Dev] Re: issues-test-2 spam?

2021-12-27 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 11:29 AM Matti Picus wrote: > You may want to try the experiments in a private repo under your username > rather than under the python organization. I think this will prevent anyone > except you from getting notified. You could even go further and set up a > dummy bpo-mi

[Python-Dev] Re: New PEP website is horrible to read on mobile device

2022-03-15 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:31 PM Nathan Cook wrote: > Please make https://peps.python.org/ more responsive to various form factors > > See attached screenshot from Chrome version 99.0.4844.58 on my Pixel 3aXL > running Android 12 I can't reproduce this without zooming in. If you're still convinc

[Python-Dev] Re: Switching to Discourse

2022-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Sat, Jul 23, 2022, 19:33 Steven Barker wrote: > So to give my final takeaway: It might be possible for Discourse to > replace Python-dev, even for those who wish to get their messages by email. > But the user experience of signing up is vastly worse, and will need much > more than a single par

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2019-09-26 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 1:58 PM Ethan Furman wrote: > Will there be a time delay between the final tagging and the deletion so any > who would like the repo in its final state can clone it at that point? No need; you can try this with any currently closed branch like 3.3: `git checkout -B 3.3 re

[Python-Dev] buildbot.python.org database reset

2019-11-28 Thread Zachary Ware
Hi all, The database backing buildbot.python.org has been reset in order to clean out old workers and builders, and to allow some relationships to be created properly to allow future cleanups without resetting everything. This does unfortunately mean that old links are going to be broken, includi

[Python-Dev] Re: Pull Request bpo-1812

2020-02-11 Thread Zachary Ware
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:59 PM Guido van Rossum wrote: > The Pull Request title is "Fix newline conversion when doctest.testfile loads > from a package whose loader has a get_data method", it looks relatively > straightforward and thorough. I've submitted a review; the actual code change is ve

[Python-Dev] Re: Pull Request bpo-1812

2020-03-13 Thread Zachary Ware
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:36 AM Peter Donis wrote: > Is there any update on this? I have put the setup/teardown code in a context > manager as Zach recommended. The setup/teardown code covers everything that > could possibly be mutated by the test. It's probably not the most elegant way > to do

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 413: Faster evolution of the Python Standard Library

2012-02-25 Thread Zachary Ware
Quick disclaimer: this is the first time I've replied on any Python list, and thus am not entirely sure what I'm doing. Hopefully this message goes as expected :) Anyhow; I have to say I like Nick's idea put forth in PEP 413, but I agree that the extra versioning info could get pretty awkward. The

Re: [Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

2012-10-01 Thread Zachary Ware
Re: to bundle or not to bundle What about having an included database that issues a (silence-able) warning any time it is used/imported/etc.? Have it say something to the effect of "Warning, the Olson database included with Python is likely to be outdated, please see for information" where (whic

Re: [Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

2012-10-01 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:06:18 +0200 > Lennart Regebro wrote: >> Actually, that's not a bad idea. My original idea was to warn if it *was* >> outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched that idea. >> But as I have pointed out

Re: [Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

2012-10-01 Thread Zachary Ware
On Oct 1, 2012 10:06 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:52:09 -0500 > Zachary Ware wrote: > > > > My thought was that it's better to have *something* always available, > > that has a decent chance of being "good enough" in

Re: [Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

2012-10-04 Thread Zachary Ware
It occurred to me this morning that Python already ships a set of timezone data with the Windows installer: Tcl/Tk's. Is there any way we could use that as the default on Windows? ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/m

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