Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
the RM. Instead, if the release procedures say that the buildbots must pass the test, and the tests don't actually pass, the natural consequence is not to release. Barry has often exercised that approach in the past, and in many cases, it actually helped in getting people mo

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
r using one of the contributed patches, or starting from scratch). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
s - I do have all the compilers available to me that I need to do that. Indeed, MSDN subscribers can still access older compiler versions for quite some time after Microsoft stopped otherwise distributing the product. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Was Tracker Summary sent Fri Aug 6?\

2010-08-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 08.08.2010 22:03, schrieb Terry Reedy: > The usual Friday Summary of Python Trackers Issues did not appear on > Gmane. Was one generated? Sending it failed due to a hard disk problem. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Python's distutils do not work with the SDK compiler, only Visual Studio. That is not true. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.py

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
as it >> could (or should) be. >> > At one point Mike Fletcher published a patch to make distutils use the > SDK compiler. It would make a lot of sense if it were built in to > distutils as a further compiler choice. Please understa

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
at comes up. Not sure when Mike Fletcher wrote his code - if it is recent, he surely must have run into the feature while reading the existing code base. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
resemblance to an A). That's why it says "rough" alphabetical order. Putting it into either place sounds reasonable - we can just expect people to change it forth and back. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
he alphabet. So the ö in Chrigström sorts in a different way than the ö in Löwis. If I move to Sweden, the file would have to change :-) Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
low the Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
glish-based Python distribution knows the > order of the 26 English letters. Please use that order (including for > decorated versions and tranliterations) instead of various idiosyncratic > and possibly conflicting nationality-based rules. So where do you put Γεώργιος Μπο

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 11.08.2010 00:35, schrieb Alexander Belopolsky: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > .. >> So where do you put Γεώργιος Μπουτσιούκης? >> > > or Александр Белопольский for that matter? :-) If you care about that, feel free to add t

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
of the Linux advocacy forums. A little bit on-topic, I think that Python actually helps to lower the barrier between users and programmers on Windows. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The question is "who will support those folks?" I don't see any > reason why you or Martin should support MSYS/mingw if you don't want > to, but please don't put down the folks who ask for it. Just say "no, > it's not worth it". Or maybe, &q

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
d, not at least for the need to provide sources as well. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] i18n

2010-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
.org. This will not only help children, but any user of the language who isn't very good at the English language. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
to pick out any specific. Notice that #3871 is really two patch: the original one (from Roumen), and the one by Руслан, who basically hijacked the issue. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

[Python-Dev] Parallel build slave

2010-08-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
he -j option to regrtest. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Old link text in documentation

2010-08-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
h a fix might be difficult to implement. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84190 - python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

2010-08-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
t; gets updated, but it never sticks in my memory). If you really *want* to update the FAQ yourself, I recommend you do a pydotorg checkout _now_. Ever since I did, I never forgot how to get it - simply because I just kept the sandbox. Regards, Martin ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84190 - python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

2010-08-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I do it every time myself, AFAIK it reduces the workload of people > that are making sure all pending patches were applied. Do we really have any such people still? I thought they have all given up long ago. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev m

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for commits and/or privileges

2010-08-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> May I have commit privileges so that I can commit these patches and > future patches in a similar state? Please send me your SSH key. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
be fine with the 2.6.6 doc set - will the minor changes that we can make to it (given that no bug fixes will be made to the code) really matter? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Python-Dev] CHM filename (was Released: Python 2.6.6)

2010-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
7;t overwrite each other. And so that if you downloaded one of them, you'd still know what it is that you downloaded afterwards. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsu

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
2.7 and 3.2: that link is already there. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

2010-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
, because it couldn't know what encoding the exception string was in when it printed it). I believe this is fixed in Python 3, which uses a Unicode string for the text. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.py

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

2010-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
[Errno 10054] A lÚtez§ kapcsolatot a tßvoli ßllomßs >>> kÚnyszerÝtette n bezßrta >> > Which is to say that the original *really* should be included. And indeed, the original message *was* included: [Errno 10054] JGFI, and out comes "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the r

Re: [Python-Dev] CHM filename (was Released: Python 2.6.6)

2010-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 26.08.2010 01:28, schrieb Adal Chiriliuc: > And there doesn't seem to be a link to > download the CHM files (the last I could find on python.org is for > Python 2.6.2). Thanks for pointing that out; there is now. Regards, Martin

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Regards, and a toast to 2.6.6! Prost! Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-08-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ly, each case could be considered, suggesting an alternative code for the desired effect. I'll be off the net for the next two weeks most of the time, so I might not be able to respond quickly. Anybody interested in advancing that patch, feel free to commit changes into the branch. Re

Re: [Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

2010-08-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> This leads me to a question: how do these configure options affect the >> PEP 384 stable ABI? That PEP is currently silent on the issue, while >> PEP 3149 appears to implicitly assume that "abi3" completely specifies >> the ABI. > > It's a great qu

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-08-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
arises if you pass FILE* across DLLs which in turn are linked with different CRTs. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
level of > portability could continue to use the non-ABI FILE * functions, but > people who do could use Py_fopen/Py_fclose in place of fopen/fclose but > otherwise work as now. I don't think this would solve the problem; see above. Regards, Martin __

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> This sounds like the issues such a mix can cause are mostly > theoretical and don't really bother much in practice, so > PEP 384 on Windows does have a chance :-) Actually, the CRT issues (FILE* in particular) have been causing real crashes for many years, for many people. R

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
docs. Yes, and that policy is an ongoing annoyance, one that PEP 384 tries to remedy. Only after I wrote the PEP, I learned that it can have uses for Linux distributions, too. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
why we take serious precautions that you never ever do. For example, distutils will, by default, refuse to use a different compiler. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

2010-09-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
FromWideChar() > and PyUnicode_AsWideChar(). Ok. I'm fine with excluding Py_UNICODE from the stable ABI. However, I think in the long run, I guess more support for wchar_t will then be needed in the API, e.g. more convenient argument parsing. Regards, Martin _

[Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
each other. 3. When the PEP recommends that stuff gets installed into pyshared, why does the patch then not implement this recommendation, but continues installing files into lib-dynload? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
hen writing > that PEP :) I think then that the PEP should better separate what is actually being specified (and apparently, that's just the name of the shared objects), from possible use case scenarios. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

2010-09-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 07.09.2010 19:46, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg: > "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> -1 on always using wchar_t as well. Python's default is UCS2 and the >>> stable ABI should not change that. >> >> It's not really Python's default. It is what confi

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
installation directory. Is the rephrasing done already? I still wonder why you suggest /usr/share should be used, when the FHS says it should be /usr/lib. This keeps confusing me, despite not being part of the specification. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev m

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 07.09.2010 19:48, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg: > "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> >>> This sounds like the issues such a mix can cause are mostly >>> theoretical and don't really bother much in practice, so >>> PEP 384 on Windows does have a chance :-)

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
o such a location might use the stable ABI, anyway. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
load time rather than at compile time). It's too late, though: when the module is being created, the code using the ABI is already running. As I wrote in the issue: the *real* ABI version is "python3.dll". Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Python 4 keeps that structure) Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] r84775 - peps/trunk/pep-3149.txt

2010-09-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
(which then don't need to bring /usr/lib/python3.3 into existance even though python 3.3 isn't installed). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [issue1633863] AIX: configure ignores $CC

2010-09-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
e in order to fix problems, it might be sufficient if only you look at the buildslave results, and create bug reports whenever you notice a problem. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Python-Dev] Add PEP 444, Python Web3 Interface.

2010-09-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
allows for easy pass-through from the web server. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
fine with me: I won't use the data myself, either. However, I fail to see why this should stop me from providing the data, when there are people requesting this feature over and over again. I'd like to see some of Python's "consenting adults" attitude here. Regards, Martin

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
uld actively hinder adoption of the better replacement. That's really sad. So people will have to wait a few years to efficiently implement tools that they could implement today. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
d implement today. Why a few years? Because it will take that long until a significant number of packages will use distutils 2. People still use very old versions of packaging tools (e.g. the ones that come with Debian); it will just take time to get the new tools and API adopted. Regards,

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
that. IT WILL BE NOT IN PREFERENCE TO DISTUTILS2. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
stutils2a2 will be out soon). And I don't mind pushing it, unless that means to deny users service now based on the promise of offering better service tomorrow. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
elling them that the data is flawed for various reasons. I object to denying them the data, and I really dislike having to discard the patch that I already wrote to implement it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mai

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I don't understand the rational behind providing flawed data at PyPI. I am -1 on that. -1 sounds much better than vetoing it :-) Taking the votes together, I currently arrive at Tarek -1 Michael -1 (?) Jannis -1 (?) Jim +1 Thomas +1 Any other opinions?

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 18.09.10 17:49, schrieb P.J. Eby: At 05:19 PM 9/18/2010 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: In the specific case of tl.eggdeps, the dependency information is only used to create printable graphs. If this turns out to be slightly incorrect, people would notice if they try to use the packages in

Re: [Python-Dev] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 18.09.2010 15:27, schrieb Steve Holden: > On 9/18/2010 9:21 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> IT WILL BE NOT IN PREFERENCE TO DISTUTILS2. > > No need to shout. I really felt that this otherwise wouldn't be heard - I tried to say it a number of times before, and it

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot for AIX

2010-09-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Also could you provide me the master.cfg file (with obfuscated > passwords) that is used by the Python buildbot master or tell me if it > is in subversion somewhere? Attached! Regards, Martin # -*- python -*- # This is a sample buildmaster config file. It must be installed as # &#

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
cases that went that way :-). Also, I think it would be better to ask the contributor to step back "on his own" (acknowledging that this isn't really voluntarily), instead of revoking privileges and then informing about that decision. Regards, Martin ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> deputed tracker authority/ies. Not everyone has the same idea about how >> to handle the various fields and processes. Who decides in cases of >> disagreement? > > We discussed this a while back and I don't think we really have a tracker > BD. Brett and Ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
imply > as a blog entry...) Can you please rephrase the question? What's a "tracker-trawler"? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 23.09.2010 11:43, schrieb Tim Golden: > On 23/09/2010 10:38, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> Let me ask a question which I don't think has been asked in this >>> thread: are there guidelines for tracker-trawlers? I'm never sure >>> where to look

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
fields in the tracker are filled in correctly Likewise. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
to contribute to Python and start by searching for > issues at the bug tracker. Sure. However, on any specific search, many issues come up already. So people searching for stuff to do will easily find tasks already. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
nybody can write to the Python wiki, it feels not very official. It's the same reason why people often trust Wikipedia less than a printed encyclopedia. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
.python.org, or MoinMoin, but opposing Wikis as general. By nature (quick-quick), information is unorganized in a Wiki. This is what wiki advocates cite as its main feature, and wiki opponents as its main flaw. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list P

Re: [Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
.jacobmason.us/blog/?p=35 http://bitbucket.org/jacobmason/sphinx-web-support http://gsoc.jacobmason.us/demo/contents Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
t when the issue is going to be closed, anyway. I do believe that much of the information on closed issues is irrelevant - yet I would oppose to deleting them entirely from the database. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
tself > something that requires a strong wiki admin team. There actually is an admin team, and they actually do set ACLs. IIUC, this is primarily for spam protection, though. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 24.09.2010 00:39, schrieb Guido van Rossum: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> With an admin team behind it, you can also make more use of ACLs to >>> flag certain parts of the wiki as "official" by making them only >&

Re: [Python-Dev] PyObject_GC_UnTrack() no longer reliable in 2.7?

2010-09-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
-public in 2.7.x). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] PyObject_GC_UnTrack() no longer reliable in 2.7?

2010-09-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 24.09.2010 23:22, schrieb Daniel Stutzbach: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de>> wrote: > > I think it would be possible to have two versions of > _PyGC_REFS_UNTRACKED, one being, say, -5. > _PyGC_R

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ed: 2 (+1, namely #4); delta would be 0 IOW, the numbers after +/- match the counts in the lists shown below, not the delta since last week. HTH, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
So how do you like the OpenID login of PyPI, which has a Google, MyOpenID and Launchpad icon, which users need to click on to create in account or login? The ultra geeks demanded and got a separate page where they can enter long URLs. Regards, Martin ___ P

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ints the numbers I put into parentheses (+2, +1), and they do *not* sum up to +1. The numbers I posted as "delta would be" are not currently included in the report. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
wiki.python.org/>, and FTR, it has annoyed me as well. So how would you propose to resolve this? Keep in mind that existing links need to continue to work. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] Relative imports in Py3k

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ry", which I think is anatoly's way of saying "it's not a bug report". Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Redirect wiki.python.org to the Python wiki front page, and put the Jython > wiki somewhere on its own (whether it's wiki.jython.org or not). But that can't work: then off-site links into either wiki break. Regards, Martin ___ Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 26.09.2010 00:48, schrieb Georg Brandl: > Am 26.09.2010 00:16, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": >>> Redirect wiki.python.org to the Python wiki front page, and put the Jython >>> wiki somewhere on its own (whether it's wiki.jython.org or not). >> >&g

Re: [Python-Dev] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ularly puzzles people some of the existing WSGI servers are now incompatible to the PEP, when they still were compatible last week. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubsc

Re: [Python-Dev] Goodbye

2010-09-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
rts being applied to the problem > it's always to know whether you are searching for the right > keywords. The Python bug tracker has only 5 keywords at the moment, which all have a straight-forward meaning. Adding "performance" and "resource usage" wou

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
quot;ultra geek" category (which I seriously don't mean as an offense). I've learned that OpenID really is a mystery even to the fairly technical usership of PyPI. As an anecdote, a user was puzzled that, after registering the Google OpenID, all you

Re: [Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
tags that cover only one or a few files). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 26.09.2010 13:58, schrieb Nick Coghlan: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:16 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> But that can't work: then off-site links into either wiki break. > > Georg isn't suggesting a general structural change, just a change to > ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
lly) redirect from wiki.jython.org to wiki.python.org/jython > -- or -- > make wiki.jython.org the canonical URI for the Jython wiki and redirect > from old /jython URIs there. I've asked Frank Wierzbicki which one he prefers. Regards, Martin ___

Re: [Python-Dev] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
aring > it final is reasonable. I'm still with Guido here: I'd accept PEP 333 as final in the state it had last week, give PJE's edits a new PEP number, and accept that as final right away also. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev m

Re: [Python-Dev] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
EP which includes > PJE's corrections. I'm not going to approve Final status for a > history-rewrite of PEP 333. +1 Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
names have to be changed, but also all software doing automatic processing of tag names will have to be updated (in addition to being ported to Mercurial, which is necessary either way). But then, if somebody volunteers to make these changes, I'm -0 to the renaming (I slightly pref

Re: [Python-Dev] PyObject_GC_UnTrack() no longer reliable in 2.7?

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ould have >> to change to check both states, and likewise the debug assert in >> visit_reachable(). > > Given the intent is to restore the 2.6 state, perhaps it is the > "UNTRACK_ALLOW_RETRACK" optimisation that should get the new special > value? O

Re: [Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 26.09.2010 20:31, schrieb Terry Reedy: > On 9/26/2010 12:54 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > >> But then, if somebody volunteers to make these changes, I'm -0 to >> the renaming (I slightly prefer calling even future release tags rXYZ). > > Except that r31

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> No, Martin really meant "not possible": once basic auth is started, > the browser prompts for username and password and you are in basic-auth > land thereafter; the web server has *no way* to tell the browser to > *stop* using basic auth. Yes, but Scott proposed that Open

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ts/post-commit-svnup.py", line 139, in main cmd("make pep-.txt") File "/data/website-build/build/scripts/post-commit-svnup.py", line 35, in cmd raise RuntimeError, '%s failed w/ exit code %d' % (command, err) RuntimeError: make pep-.txt failed w

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ps over pep-.txt. However, if it's really important that the fields in a PEP are in a certain order (why is that important?), then I guess PEP 0 should really comply with its own specification :-) Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list P

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ild fails, the html file will still have an old time stamp. So I'm unsure why you thought you needed to modify some of the files. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
the error messages that got generated. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

2010-09-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
into it, and the community doesn't really get a voice in deciding on it. It's bad for quality (as I think you also point out) if the author of a PEP is also the one who pronounces on it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] issue2180 and using 'tokenize' with Python 3 'str's

2010-09-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
tored on disks, or else disks should stop being byte-oriented. Let's go the Smalltalk way - they store all source code in the image, no need to deal with perversities like files anymore. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] issue2180 and using 'tokenize' with Python 3 'str's

2010-09-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
inal source is fairly safe. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Atlassian and bitbucket merge

2010-09-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
e effort to write them is also reduced :-) Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] We should be using a tool for code reviews

2010-09-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
7;t know how to get roundup to post to Rietveld, "anonymously", so to speak. So perhaps we should just run our own Rietveld instance next to Roundup. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.or

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