[Python-Dev] Re: [python-committers] PEP 563 and Python 3.10.

2021-04-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
While I have not been involved in the release process for like 15 years or more, I would like to point out that breaking changes mean the distros are less likely to ship them, and be less likely to trust updates. Trying to get RH &c to stop shipping 1.5.2 was a huge effort. Always, any time when

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] On track for Python 2.6.4 final this Sunday?

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
I strongly urge another release candidate. But then, I am not doing the work, so take that advice for what it is... On Oct 14, 2009 10:18 AM, "Barry Warsaw" wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I always thought that the idea of a release ... No, but let's do one anyway!

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE for 2.5b2, tomorrow Tuesday 11th, 00:00 UTC

2006-07-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
The trunk is frozen from 00:00 UTC Tuesday the 11th of July. This is in about 16 hours or so time. As usual, unless you're a member of the release team, please don't checkin past that time until I send an email that the release is done. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EM

Re: [Python-Dev] "Missing" 2.5 feature

2006-07-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
anyway_ be considered "pedantry", and it makes me quite grumpy to have it described in that way. > For the users, it > is a net win if this goes in. In the case of this feature, that's true. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <

Re: [Python-Dev] "Missing" 2.5 feature

2006-07-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
ct warning. But that really will have to wait until post-beta2 at this point. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

[Python-Dev] Subject: RELEASED Python 2.5 (beta 2)

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
e, sqlite3, wsgiref and ctypes. In addition, a new profiling module "cProfile" was added. Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgplW1DKoGpz0.pgp Description: PGP signature __

[Python-Dev] TRUNK is UNFROZEN.

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
beta2 is done, so trunk is unfrozen. Remember, we're still in feature freeze, so new features need approval before being committed. Thanks! Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. __

[Python-Dev] Minor: Unix icons for 2.5?

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
s I missed? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [Python-Dev] get for lists and tuples?

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
one better. No way at all will it be in 2.5. And I'd be a firm -1 on adding in to 2.6 as well. It encourages bad coding. You shouldn't be searching lists and tuples like that unless you know what you're doing. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unicode bug resuscitation attempt

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
Contributions are welcome, as long as they fix this entire issue > "for good" (i.e. in all URL-processing code, and considering all > relevant RFCs). For 2.5, should we at least detect that it's unicode and raise a useful error? -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Python-Dev] changing time.strftime() to accept 0s (was: User's complaints)

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
Making strftime accept 0s is fine to be checked in, since it's a regression (an understandable one, but what the hell). Making it accept less than 9 items and have useful defaults should wait for 2.6 ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Long options support

2006-07-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 21:55, Georg Brandl wrote: > >> Should we accept at least the very common options "--help" and > >> "--version" in 2.5? > > > > Guido pronounced on this in May > > Late it comes, but here is a patch for getopt.c implementing > this pronouncement. I think there's no need to

Re: [Python-Dev] User's complaints

2006-07-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
but because it breaks real code -- undocumented be > damned. > > Are we going to fix it, without allowing those crashes again? I already said "yes" for 2.5. Brett, can you work up a patch? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
FWIW, I tend to run a few project(*) test suites when doing minor releases (2.x.y), just to make sure I don't break things. For major releases, it's a fair bit more work - something like Twisted or Zope3 play at such a low level with the Python interfaces that there's nearly always breakages or

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
time (requiring extra monitoring by people like myself and Neal), or we branch earlier, requiring double commits to the trunk and the branch for bugfixes. I also strongly doubt that making a longer "release candidate" cycle would lead to any significant additional testing by end-use

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
y enough, so does release management. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscr

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
e is feasible? And if there's not going to be a feature freeze, there's hardly any point to people doing testing until there _is_ a feature freeze, is there? Oh, great, my code works with 2.5b1. Oops. 2.5b9 added a new feature that broke my code, but I didn't test with that. A

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
y forking much earlier. This approach would also make it extremely difficult to plan for releases. I know that my free time varies across the course of the year, and I need _some_ sort of plan for when the release will happen so I can make sure I have the time free to spend on it. Anthony --

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
the workload for bugfixes. SVN is better than CVS, but it's still not great when it comes to backporting fixes between branches. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] Which version of distutils to ship with Python 2.5?

2006-07-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:40, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Collin Winter wrote: > > Is it intentional that Python 2.5 is (currently) shipping with > > distutils 2.4.0, while Python 2.4 (at least 2.4.1, 2.4.2 and > > 2.4.3) shipped with distutils 2.4.1? Judging from my own tests, > > distutils 2.4.1 f

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 release schedule

2006-07-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
inevitable - there's a lot of new stuff in 2.5. Does anyone disagree with making the next release beta3? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE 2006-07-03, 00:00 UTC for 2.5b3

2006-08-02 Thread Anthony Baxter
done. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (beta 3)

2006-08-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
nts to generators to produce a coroutine kind of functionality, and a brand new AST-based compiler implementation. New modules added include hashlib, ElementTree, sqlite3, wsgiref and ctypes. In addition, a new profiling module "cProfile" was added. Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony

[Python-Dev] TRUNK is UNFROZEN

2006-08-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
The trunk is unfrozen now. Sorry about the delay - combination of a laptop motherboard replacement and a DSL provider with a network that was .. ahem... slightly slow. I'm still planning to branch at 2.5c1, the next release. That then opens the trunk up for all the bad craziness that's planned

Re: [Python-Dev] windows 2.5 build: use OpenSSL for hashlib [bug 1535502]

2006-08-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm nervous about this change being made at this stage of the release process. It seems to me to have a chance of causing breakages - admittedly a small chance, but one that's higher than I'd like. I'd also like to make sure that the PCBuild8 directory is updated at the same time - with the rec

Re: [Python-Dev] Type of range object members

2006-08-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
> > Similarly, rangeiter_next will need to use PyInt_FromSsize_t . > > Feel free to submit a patch for Python 2.6. I expect the 2.5 release > managers to reject this on the basis of being a new feature. Absolutely correct. At this point in the release process, there's going

Re: [Python-Dev] no remaining issues blocking 2.5 release

2006-08-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
lease process for 2.5c1. This will be done after the repository is updated to identify itself as '2.5c1'. Once this is done, I plan on doing all further 2.5 releases from the release25-maint branch. I will no longer care about the trunk's stability :-) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] no remaining issues blocking 2.5 release

2006-08-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
I really don't care any more about this. My initial concern (and why I requested the change) was that there are no more official separate distutils releases. I don't see how keeping a bunch of version numbers in the stdlib that just track the main version number is a sane use of developer time -

Re: [Python-Dev] no remaining issues blocking 2.5 release

2006-08-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
docs can be built. So long as you don't break anything, doc changes are fine. Remember that post RC1 you'll need to checkin to both release25-maint and trunk. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] IDLE patches - bugfix or not?

2006-08-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
pt too broad. I wouldn't suggest > applying this late in the release cycle, except that it seems sort of > like the memory errors that are still being patched. I'd be concerned that this might cause other obscure behaviour changes, and so I&#

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE for 2.5c1, 00:00 UTC, Thursday 17th August

2006-08-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
the release is done - at that point, the trunk is then available for 2.6 checkins. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] [wwwsearch-general] 2.5: recently introduced sgmllib regexp bug hangs Python

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
s a bit late for the release candidate :-) but I agree - if it can't be fixed before 2.5 final, it should be reverted. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing lis

[Python-Dev] TRUNK IS UNFROZEN, available for 2.6 work if you are so inclined

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
t here, or if you have to send private email, send it to both of us. If this policy offends you, please reply and let me know what you'd prefer. Right now, I don't really care about the trunk - although if you break the buildbot, I'm sure Neal will be very cranky at you :-)

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (release candidate 1)

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
qlite3, wsgiref, uuid and ctypes. In addition, a new profiling module cProfile was added. Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpC2XcpH5jvO.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] TRUNK IS UNFROZEN, available for 2.6 work if you are so inclined

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 18 August 2006 00:47, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Anthony Baxter schrieb: > > Right now, I don't really care about the trunk - although if you break > > the buildbot [...] > > Thanks for reminding me. I just added a buildbot builder for the 2.5 > branch (actu

Re: [Python-Dev] TRUNK IS UNFROZEN, available for 2.6 work if you are so inclined

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
Fixing docs is fine - please checkin. ___ 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] uuid tests failing on Windows

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
hould go in. Sounds fine to me. Making buildbot less red == goodness. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Python-Dev] How does this help? Re: [Python-checkins] r51366 - python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py

2006-08-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
about changing distutils' version number? :-) I'd very much like to do this, but I figured this was a good first step. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] One-line fix for urllib2 regression

2006-08-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
f the original patch, I have reviewed it and I'm for it. I agree with Neal's comment - this needs tests to make sure it doesn't break again. It's OK to apply it with the tests. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 27 August 2006 05:06, Jack Howarth wrote: >I discovered that gcc 4.2 exposes a flaw with > signed integer overflows in python. This bug and the > necessary fix has been discussed in detail on the gcc > mailing list. I have filed a detailed bug report and > the recommended patch pr

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 08:57, Tim Peters wrote: > Speaking of which, I saw no feedback on the proposed patch in > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068502.html > > so I'll just check that in tomorrow. Fine with me! thanks, Anthony -- Anthon

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
-maint and release23-maint. Let me know if you can't do the backport... -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.py

Re: [Python-Dev] A test suite for unittest

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony Baxter
At this point, I'd say the documentation patches should go in - the other patches are probably appropriate for 2.5.1. I only want to accept critical patches between now and 2.5 final. Thanks for the patches (and particularly for the unittest! woo!) Anthony _

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented

2006-09-02 Thread Anthony Baxter
t; The patch is ready-to-go. > Nick, please go ahead and backport. I think this is suitable for 2.5. I'm thinking, though, that we need a second release candidate, given the number of changes since rc1. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It&#

Re: [Python-Dev] Signals, threads, blocking C functions

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
f this going into 2.5. Signals and threads combined are an complete *nightmare* of platform-specific behaviour. I'm -1000 on trying to change this code now, _after_ the first release candidate. To say that "that path lies madness" is like saying "Pacific Ocean large, wet, full of fis

Re: [Python-Dev] Signals, threads, blocking C functions

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 00:05, Nick Maclaren wrote: > Anthony Baxter isn't exaggerating the problem, despite what you may > think from his posting. If the SF bugtracker had a better search interface, you could see why I have such a bleak view of this area of Python. What's t

Re: [Python-Dev] Signals, threads, blocking C functions

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 00:52, Gustavo Carneiro wrote: > 3. Signals can be delivered to any thread, let's assume (because > of point #1 and not others not mentioned) that we have no control over > which threads receive which signals, might as well be random for all > we know; Note that

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode Imports

2006-09-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 08 September 2006 02:56, Kristján V. Jónsson wrote: > Hello All. > I just added patch 1552880 to sourceforge. It is a patch for 2.6 (and 2.5) > which allows unicode paths in sys.path and uses the unicode file api on > windows. This is tried and tested on 2.5, and backported to 2.3 and is

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode Imports

2006-09-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
ly large patch for a release candidate but if > prudence suggests deferring it, it should be a *definite* for 2.5.1 and > subsequent releases. Possibly. I remain unconvinced. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode Imports

2006-09-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
re for bugfixes, only. It's possible that this could be considered a bugfix, but as I said right now I'm dubious. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-D

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE: release25-maint, 00:00UTC 12 September 2006

2006-09-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
out 12 hours from now. This is for 2.5rc2. Once this is out, I'd like to see as close to zero changes as possible for the next week or so until 2.5 final is released. My god, it's getting so close... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime's strftime implementation: by design or bug

2006-09-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
Please log a bug - this is probably something suitable for fixing in 2.5.1. At the very least, if it's going to be limited to 127 characters, it should check that and raise a more suitable exception. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org h

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (release candidate 2)

2006-09-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
giref, uuid and ctypes. In addition, a new profiling module "cProfile" was added. Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) ___ Python-Dev mailing list

[Python-Dev] release is done, but release25-maint branch remains near-frozen

2006-09-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ok - we're looking at a final release in 7 days time. I really, really, really don't want to have to cut an rc3, so unless it's a seriously critical brown-paper-bag bug, let's hold off on the checkins. Documentation, I don't mind so much - particularly any formatt

Re: [Python-Dev] Before 2.5 - More signed integer overflows

2006-09-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
during the release cycle) that we'll probably need a 2.5.1 in about 3 months. 3. We delay the release until it's fixed. I'm strongly leaning towards (2) at this point. (1) would probably require another release candidate, while (3) would result in another release candidate and

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE/IMMINENT RELEASE: Python 2.5 (final). 2006-09-19, 00:00UTC

2006-09-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
ed on the last few releases, I'd expect the release process to take around 18 hours (timezones are a swine). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (FINAL)

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
ref, uuid and ctypes. As well, a new higher-performance profiling module (cProfile) was added. Extra-special thanks on behalf of the entire Python community should go out to Neal Norwitz, who's done absolutely sterling work in shepherding Python 2.5 through to it's final release. Enjoy th

[Python-Dev] release25-maint branch - please keep frozen for a day or two more.

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
Could people please treat the release25-maint branch as frozen for a day or two, just in case we have to cut an ohmygodnononokillme release? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happ

[Python-Dev] release25-maint is UNFROZEN

2006-09-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
n and agreement on python-dev first. Thanks to everyone for helping make 2.5 happen. It's been a long slog there, but I think we can all be proud of the result. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___

[Python-Dev] AST structure and maintenance branches

2006-09-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'd like to propose that the AST format returned by passing PyCF_ONLY_AST to compile() get the same guarantee in maintenance branches as the bytecode format - that is, unless it's absolutely necessary, we'll keep it the same. Otherwise anyone trying to write tools to manipulate the AST is in for

[Python-Dev] 2.4.4c1 October 11, 2.4.4 final October 18

2006-09-25 Thread Anthony Baxter
The plan for 2.4.4 is to have a release candidate on October 11th, and a final release on October 18th. This is very likely to be the last ever 2.4 release, after which 2.4.4 joins 2.3.5 and earlier in the old folks home, where it can live out it's remaining life with dignity and respect. If y

Re: [Python-Dev] AST structure and maintenance branches

2006-09-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 29 September 2006 00:30, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > On 9/23/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to propose that the AST format returned by passing PyCF_ONLY_AST > > to compile() get the same guarantee in maintenance branches as the > > b

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE, release24-maint for 2.4.4c1. 00:00UTC, 11 October 2006

2006-10-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
The release24-maint branch is frozen for the 2.4.4c1 release from 00:00UTC on the 11th of October. That's about 7 hours from now. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Py

[Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
I've had a couple of queries about whether PSF-2006-001 merits a 2.3.6. Personally, I lean towards "no" - 2.4 was nearly two years ago now. But I'm open to other opinions - I guess people see the phrase "buffer overrun" and they get scared. Plus once 2.4.4 final is out next week, I'll have cut

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.4, release candidate 1

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
ghts of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpzcYkwpfnHG.pgp Descri

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:18, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > 16 releases in 12 months would just about make me go crazy. > > is there any way we could further automate or otherwise streamline or > distribute the release process ? It's already pretty

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 13 October 2006 06:25, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > > Mostly it is easy for me, with the one huge caveat. As far as I > > know, the Mac > > build is a single command to run for Ronald, and the Doc build > > simi

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5 performance

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
supported. There's plenty of platforms we "support" which don't have buildslaves, but they're all variants of Unix - I'm happy that they are all mostly[1] sane. Anthony [1] Offer void on some versions of HP/UX, Irix, AIX -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 13 October 2006 05:30, Georg Brandl wrote: > I'm I the only one who feels that the website is a big workflow problem? Assuming you meant "Am I", then I absolutely agree with you. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too l

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
t does take the time is the website - fixing that is a major investment of time, which I also don't have. Yes, had I spent the probably 20+ hours I've spent doing website stuff I could have made it a bit better, but that's what I know _now_ :) -- Anthony Baxter <[E

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
ng to watch out for is that I (or whoever) can still do local work on a bunch of different files, then check it in all in one hit once it's done and checked. This was an issue I had with the various wiki-based proposals, I haven't seen many wikis that allow this. -- Anthony Baxte

Re: [Python-Dev] Why spawnvp not implemented on Windows?

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
> portable code at all. "One" might say that. I wouldn't. It stays out until 2.6. Sorry Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
27;s insane :-) The bit of the website that's dealing with the actual files is not the tricky bit - I have a dinky little python script that generates the download table. The problems are with the other bits of the pages. I keep thinking "next release, I'll automate it furthe

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
have to have an overall infrastructure that lets you make > incremental tweaks to the tool chain, so things can get a little better > all the time. Pyramid obviously isn't such a system. I can't disagree with this. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It'

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
ne, macteagle. For some reason builds fail on it right now - Ronald might be able to supply more details as to why. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
all sorts of minor variations there - for instance, often in a non-final release, we don't have an unpacked version of the documentation (but sometimes we do, wah). The killer bits for me are all the other places. For instance, updating the sidebar menu quicklinks for 2.4.4 to 2.5. The

Re: [Python-Dev] os.utime on directories: bug fix or new feature?

2006-10-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
releases having new capabilities. Since it wasn't possible in earlier than 2.5 either, I'd say it's on the edge of being a bugfix. Let's be conservative and not backport it, since it's also a pretty marginal feature. Anthony --

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:54, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Martin v. L�wis wrote: > > In 2.3.6, there wouldn't just be that change, but also a few other > > changes that have been collected, some relevant for Windows as well > > why not just do a "2.3.5+security" source release, and leave the rest to

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
u're willing to > coordinate, is there anything we can do to help? Less than a normal release, since I'm not going to worry about changing the docs, the windows installers or the mac installers. I'll look at it next week, once 2.4.4 final is done. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE release24-maint, Wed 18th Oct, 00:00UTC

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
edge wants to review that it can be checked in. It _should_ be good, and probably needs to be applied to release25-maint and the trunk as well. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org down

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 00:59, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > FYI -- can't do svn checkouts/updates from the trunk at this point. > > starting svn operation > svn update --revision HEAD > in dir /home/twistbot/pybot/trunk.gheorghiu-x86/build (timeout 1200 secs) > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/pr

Re: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org down

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ah - the svn-apache server was down. I've restarted it. We should probably put some monitoring/restarting in place for those servers - if someone wants to volunteer a script I'll add it to cron, or I'll write it myself when I get a chance. (I was testing with svn+ssh, it was the http version th

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.4, Final.

2006-10-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpHQFKzDQCYF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt

[Python-Dev] state of the maintenance branches

2006-10-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
tion becomes better understood. Anyway, all of the above is open to disagreement or other opinions - if you have them, let me know. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development

2006-10-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
Thanks to the folks involved in this prcocess - I'm looking forward to getting the hell away from SF's bug tracker. :-) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mai

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.6, release candidate 1

2006-10-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
ease notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.3.6 Highlights of this new release include: - A fix for PSF-2006-001, a bug in repr() for unicode strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. - Two other, less critical, security fixes. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52482 - in python/branches/release25-maint: Lib/urllib.py Lib/urllib2.py Misc/NEWS

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
rity related bugs) will get a new release, and then only with the serious bugfixes applied. One active maintenance branch is quite enough to deal with, IMHO. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] build bots, log output

2006-10-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
. This solution doesn't require changes to the buildslave code at all - only to the buildmaster and to regrtest. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.6, FINAL

2006-11-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.3.6 Highlights of this new release include: - A fix for PSF-2006-001, a bug in repr() for unicode strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. - Two other, less critical, security fixes. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: [Python-Dev] __dir__, part 2

2006-11-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
completely appropriate, too. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

2006-11-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
uilding is a tiny part of the problem... or am I missing something? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52692 - in python/trunk: Lib/mailbox.py Misc/NEWS

2006-11-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
ails. I'm happy for it to go into release25-maint (particularly because the consequences of the bug are so dire). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52692 - in python/trunk: Lib/mailbox.py Misc/NEWS

2006-11-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 10 November 2006 13:45, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > OK, I'll backport it; thanks! > > (It's not fixing a frequent data-loss problem -- the patch just > assures that when flush() or close() returns, data is more likely to > have been written to disk and be safe after a subsequent system > crash

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
or 2.6. note that read I agree that a warning seems best. If someone (for whatever reason) is flinging floats around where they actually meant to have ints, going straight to an error from silently truncating and accepting it seems a little bit harsh. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL P

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
hon. It's worth noting that the entirety of the Python stdlib is a required package, so it doesn't cause issues.) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
LSB, > actually. Well, I don't know what sort of public statement you want to issue, but will this do? (Wearing my release manager hat) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. __

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible platforms to drop in 2.6

2006-12-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:19, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Of course, if the project management decide that even the EMX > support should be removed from the official tree - so be it; I > will just have to maintain the port outside the official tree. I feel that so long as there's an active maint

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for python SIP and MGCP stacks

2006-12-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:15, Jenny Zhao (zhzhao) wrote: > Hi Python developers, > > I am using python to write a testing tools, currently this tool > only supports skinny protocol. I am planning to add SIP and MGCP > support as well, wondering if you have written these protocol > stacks be

Re: [Python-Dev] kill the cbsoutdoor.co.uk autoresponder

2007-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 05 January 2007 17:40, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > Whoever is subscribed to python-dev with a broken corporate > autoresponder that sends everyone who posts to the list this > useless response multiple times please unsubscribe yourself. Its > highly annoying and entirely useless since its

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
cc'ing python-dev - followups should probably go there, rather than the p3yk list. So here's my latest plan: - Add a Py3KDeprecationWarning, as a subclass of DeprecationWarning (or maybe just of Warning) - Add a -W py3k shortcut, which is the same as "-W once:Py3kDeprecationWarning" - Add a C

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