Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-24 Thread David Bolen
raction. I can't see the downside. -- David ___ 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] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-25 Thread David Bolen
/error/assert went to stderr) So nothing permanently built into Python, nor enabled outside of a buildbot regression test. I agree permanently disabling them wouldn't make sense, but I thought we also agreed to that back in 2007? -- David PS: The dialogs are showing up again on my build slav

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
it has no policy, and can be used for different kind of situations, because you can (if you want) control things in a very fine-grained manner. Automatic, 'native' installers which are well integrated into every system, this seems so far from reach I don't see how this can ev

Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-25 Thread David Bolen
o have disappeared during a large merger from trunk to the py3k branch mid-2008 (r64273) when the batch file line ending was changed to CRLF. It would be nice to also have this in the other active release branches. -- David ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
ggs and not from the build tool provided by python itself (distutils) ? I don't see what eggs brings - specially since the format is not even standardized. cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

2009-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
your own build_clib and/or install commands. Even autotools is more enjoyable, which is quite an achievement :) If distutils was split into different modules (one for the build, one for the compiler/platform configuration, one for the installation), which could be extended, tweaked, it would be much b

Re: [Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

2009-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> If distutils was split into different modules (one for the build, one >> for the compiler/platform configuration, one for the installation), >> which could be

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
is indeed sorely needed, David ___ 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] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
cording to your diagram, the build->A is the only part where describing meta-data can be possible so that everyone benefit from it - which is what I believe Tarek is working on, cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:/

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-27 Thread David Cournapeau
how things work on other platforms, so they suggest broken fixes. To say it differently: I mostly use Linux, the less time I am on windows, the happier I am, but bdist_wininst is the only distutils bdist_* command I care about. cheers, David ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-27 Thread David Cournapeau
ak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EggFormats But as said in the preambule, people are not supposed to rely on this. I for once would be really happy if I could build eggs without setuptools - for example to build eggs from scons, scripts, etc... cheers, David _

Re: [Python-Dev] splitting out bdist_*

2009-03-28 Thread David Cournapeau
tallation feature. Thinking of it, that's exactly why I like bdist_wininst so much when I am on windows (and because the consequences of a bad installer from bdist_wininst seem minimal on windows, seems everything is one directory). David ___ Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] splitting out bdist_*

2009-03-28 Thread David Cournapeau
ons, etc...) - and the upstream developer doesn't need to care much about it. cheers, David ___ 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] bdist_linux (was: setuptools has divided the Python community)

2009-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
cabal provides everything I would like distutils to provide: static metadata, good documentation, sane handling of options, etc... Maybe that's something worth looking into as inspiration for improving/fixing distutils) cheers, David ___ 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] bdist_linux

2009-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
tream instead of every OS packager having to do it. >> python setup.py distutils --datadir=bla --htmldir=foo > > What's the meaning of the distutils command? Sorry, this should read python setup.py install ... cheers, David _

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
lack of autoheader is not accurate, if only because kde projects have it: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_HowToDoPlatformChecks Whether using it compared to the current system is really a win for python, I have no idea. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > What are the compilation requirements for cmake itself? Does it only need a > standard C compiler and library, or are there other dependencies? CMake is written in C++. IIRC, that's the only dependency. che

Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-29 Thread David Bolen
David Bolen writes: >>From what I can see though, the tools/buildbot/test.bat file no longer > adds the -n option that it used to, although I'm unclear on why it > might have been removed. Perhaps this was just a regression that was > accidentally missed, as it appears

Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-30 Thread David Bolen
ems very strange to me that there could be any good reason to leave a potential for such popups (which at this point is easy to disable) in the buildbot environment. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-03-30 Thread David Cournapeau
out first converting everything to cmake for all the other platforms. Also, when converting a project from one build system to another, doing the 80 % takes 20 % in my experience. The most time consuming part is all small the details on not so common platforms. David

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-03-30 Thread David Cournapeau
o it means ten days of work to convert to a new system that maybe most python maintainers do not know. What does it bring ? I think supporting cross compilation would be more worthwhile, for example, in the build department. cheers, David ___ Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-31 Thread David Bolen
quot; option can be restored to the buildbot test.bat (from the revision history I'm not actually sure it was intentionally removed in the first place)? Unlike normal Windows popups I can't protect against it easily through local modifications to my build slave, since test.bat gets upda

Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-31 Thread David Bolen
worst (perhaps due to the sorts of changes made) the assertions seem to have hit the py3k branch more than others. Thanks for the test.bat change. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

2009-03-31 Thread David Bolen
d test runs from completing. -- David ___ 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] bdb.py trace C implementation?

2009-04-01 Thread David Christian
res action. I'd be willing to maintain the C implementation. I would be willing to write those tests that are possible as well. Is this something that would be likely to be accepted? Thanks, David Christian Senior Software Engineer rPath, Inc. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] bdb.py trace C implementation?

2009-04-01 Thread David Christian
tead of once per line. This can give a large speedup when you are skipping the entire standard library, at some measurable cost per function call, and a cost in code complexity. --- David Christian Senior Software Engineer rPath, Inc ___ Python-Dev ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial?

2009-04-05 Thread David Cournapeau
t one big svn repo into subprojects, etc... Then, the git repo could be converted to hg relatively easily I believe. cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-07 Thread David Cournapeau
get right once you want to manage dependencies automatically. For simple python projects (pure python, a few .c source files without much dependencies), I think it is just overkill. cheers, David > > -- > Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-07 Thread David Cournapeau
use you can "easily" give up this task back to distutils, whereas it is inherently more difficult with cmake. cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

2009-04-07 Thread David Cournapeau
proposal does not solve anything. Not that I have a solution, of course :) cheers, David > > My suggestion basically builds on the same idea as Martin's PEP, > but uses a single __pkg__.py file as opposed to some non-Python > file yaddayadda.pkg. > > Here's a co

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-07 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Heikki Toivonen wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: >> The hard (or rather time consuming) work is to do everything else that >> distutils does related to the packaging. That's where scons/waf are >> more interesting than cmake IMO, becaus

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-07 Thread David Cournapeau
ere doing ocaml builds, having a build tool in ocaml would have been easier, etc... David ___ 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] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-07 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Greg Ewing > wrote: >> David Cournapeau wrote: >>> >>> Having a full >>> fledged language for complex builds is nice, I think most familiar >>> with co

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-08 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > I think cmake can do all of the above (cpack supports creating packages). I am sure it is - it is just a lot of work, specially if you want to stay compatible with distutils-built extensions :) cheers, Da

Re: [Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again)

2009-04-30 Thread David Ripton
bject, but it appears that a full PyGTK on Python 3 is a ways off. -- David Riptondrip...@ripton.net ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Python-Dev] Help on issue 5941

2009-05-07 Thread David Cournapeau
ng the logic used for e.g. ldshared, I can prepare a patch if you want, cheers, David ___ 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] Help on issue 5941

2009-05-07 Thread David Cournapeau
track running on the Python trunk and receiving > mails if something is broken. Well, I would not mind either :) David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.py

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding a "sysconfig" module in the stdlib

2009-05-07 Thread David Cournapeau
n for every platform in sysconfig, instead of just Unix. I understand it is not an easy problem (because windows builds are totally different than every other platform), but it would really help for interoperability with other build tools. If sysconfig is to become independent of distutils, it should be c

Re: [Python-Dev] py3k build broken

2009-05-08 Thread David Cournapeau
h did not include the generated files. My apologies, cheers, David ___ 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] .pth files are evil

2009-05-10 Thread David Lyon
27;m not sure GNU stow will handle the .PTH when deinstalling packages. In easy_install.PTH there will be a list of all the packages installed. This list really needs to be edited once a package is removed. The .PTH files are a really good part of python. Definite

Re: [Python-Dev] How to build Python 2.6.2 on HP-UX Itanium with thread support?

2009-05-13 Thread David Ripton
and I don't work there anymore, so I don't have access to that HP-UX hardware anymore, or to the notes I made when I was doing the port. So I can give you encouragement but not step-by-step instructions. Sorry. -- David Riptondrip...@ripton.net ___

Re: [Python-Dev] IronPython specific code in inspect module

2009-05-19 Thread David Stanek
atements and use that as the basis for the sane injected defaults. 5. Document the interfaces for each component that can be changed by the vendor. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] IronPython specific code in inspect module

2009-05-20 Thread David Stanek
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > On May 19, 2009, at 10:21 PM, David Stanek wrote: > >> >> It seems that using a technique similar to dependency injection could >> provide some value. DI allows implementations conforming to some >> interf

Re: [Python-Dev] question about docstring formatting

2009-05-28 Thread David Goodger
is should be enforced in any way. It's just a guideline. If a tool needs a short summary and the docstring doens't have a one-liner, I'd expect the tool just to take the first line and add ellipsis ("..."). -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [buildbot] some build slaves in bad shape

2009-05-28 Thread David Bolen
n a separate virtual drive. Wonder what the heck has filled up the system drive. I'm working on it now though. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.py

Re: [Python-Dev] [buildbot] some build slaves in bad shape

2009-05-28 Thread David Bolen
David Bolen writes: > Ooops, that's mine. Geez - it's a VM, but has a 10GB C: drive, and > the actual build slave has its working directory on a separate virtual > drive. Wonder what the heck has filled up the system drive. I'm > working on it now though. Well

[Python-Dev] Possibility of binary configuration mismatch

2009-05-28 Thread David Abrahams
Hi All, I'm not sure there's anything you can do about this, but I thought I should alert the Python devs that it can happen... http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/704#comment:7 describes a situation where my macports-installed python25 had a pyOpenSSL egg installed in it by something other t

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Wave as a developer communication tool

2009-06-04 Thread David Bolen
example, integrating with Google Code's bug tracking back end at 1:02:30 where comments in the wave were reflected into the bug comments (though the reverse direction wasn't implemented yet), or even the twitter integration at 57:53. -- David __

Re: [Python-Dev] py3k buildbots

2009-06-05 Thread David Bolen
've restarted my buildbots. -- David ___ 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 376 - Open questions

2009-07-08 Thread David Cournapeau
ata are so much easier to use compared to setup.py/distutils for 3rd party interop. There was a discussion about how to describe/find the list of files to form a distribution (for the different sdist/bdist_* commands), but no agreement was reached. Some people stro

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

2009-07-09 Thread David Cournapeau
+1. Now who's going to design & write it? I started a new thread on distutils-sig ("setup.py needs to go away") to avoid jeopardizing this thread. I added the context as well as my own suggestions for such a design. David ___ Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] "Absolute" paths in PEP 376 RECORD files

2009-07-09 Thread David Lyon
it might suggest that it is time to get some fresh developers onboard Thats not even a programmatic fix... Regards David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http:

Re: [Python-Dev] "Absolute" paths in PEP 376 RECORD files

2009-07-09 Thread David Lyon
ts/pythonpkgmgr) does. With that, if there is any package documentation in a docs directory the user can click on it and display it. Regards David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsub

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view

2009-07-15 Thread David Cournapeau
work with docutils 0.4 in the first place. http://www.mail-archive.com/distutils-...@python.org/msg05775.html And current hacks to work around lack of explicit version handling for module import is a maintenance burden: http://www.mail-archive.com/distutils-...@python.o

[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr point of view

2009-07-15 Thread David Lyon
counter difficulty installing a package, please contact us via the distutils mailing list. (Note: please DO NOT send private email directly to the author of setuptools; it will be discarded. " So what are we to do if we find issues with setuptools other than to post to distutils? David _

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread David Lyon
ing a Package Manager program takes your use case scenerio backwards because it wouldn't really change it. (repeating) > But a single drop-it-in directory works great for the vast majority of > *my* needs; That's exactly what site-packages is. So it isn't clear why you want

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

2009-07-19 Thread David Lyon
cal/pythonX.X/site-packages and I am checking other posix operating systems and trying to work out what the equivilents might be. When I have it working.. I will let you know.. I'm just trying to work out how to get the permissions going correctly. David

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

2009-07-21 Thread David Lyon
e hubba setuptools/distutils doesn't put packages there by default. That would solve a lot of problems. Just leave /usr/lib/pythonX.X//lib/site-packages to the O/S. Wrapping up.. most of the functionality that I'm asking for is already t

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

2009-07-21 Thread David Lyon
ev community, but apparently not?? Forgive my ignorance... I'm working with 2.5 on ubuntu and didn't think to try 2.6... It's good to know that the problem is fixed in 2.6 but I still need to make things work for pythonpkgmgr on ubuntu py2.5 as 2.5 is the default for ubuntu 8.10. Take

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

2009-07-22 Thread David Lyon
- I can only get it to work with sudo. > That is precisely how I think of virtualenv: it sits on top of distutils > / setuptools, and makes it sane to do Python development without > compromising the core system. For me I prefer using a tool

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

2009-07-22 Thread David Lyon
-scriptpackages', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/Users/david/.loca

[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-22 Thread David Lyon
ative to command line installation. And can save a lot of time for users when they wish to install packages. Thanks David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw32 and gc-header weirdness

2009-07-22 Thread David Cournapeau
dio? if yes, you may report a bug to them > :-)). I think mostly ABI compatible is the best description :) David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-23 Thread david . lyon
' packages back. Surely this is a gap in the standard distro? So it is not inappropriate for me to ask about this on this list. Take care David ___ 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] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

2009-07-23 Thread david . lyon
Hi Floris, That's exactly how I see it and i totally agree. My contribution is to make a Package Manager Gui that tries to be supportive of what you describe so well. If i have any complaint about the state of affairs it would only be that it takes a newcomer such a long time (months) to fully u

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-23 Thread david . lyon
as being the most interesting part of python develepment going on today. Inapropriate or not, i want to donate my time to it.. Because i think we need 'fresh' thinking - not archive regurgitation. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw32 and gc-header weirdness

2009-07-23 Thread David Cournapeau
st version of VS usually). I am far from a windows specialist, but I understand that quite a few problems with mingw-built extensions with python are caused by some Python decisions as well (the C API with runtime-dependent structures like FILE, etc...). So mingw is not the only to blame :) David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-23 Thread David Lyon
anager within at least the Windows distribution of Python. Yes, please tell me the process... I'm very interested. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-23 Thread David Lyon
doesn't affect the Python Package Manager in any way. David ___ 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] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-24 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:54:09 +0200, Georg Brandl wrote: > David Lyon schrieb: >> In executable form, the Package Manager does not require wxWidgets >> to be installed. >> >> There is no dependency for this to be installed. > > What does "in exectuable

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-24 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:08:32 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > I read this as meaning that David was proposing to ship a built > application (on Windows, bundled up with something like py2exe, I > guess) and any supporting DLLs such as the wxWindows ones would be > bundled in, but the wxPy

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-24 Thread David Lyon
indow applications? Does the application need to be web based? or console based? or TK based... ? For it to be acceptable.. Thank you David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-24 Thread David Lyon
y other windows application that ships with dll files. I fully appreciate that changes could be necessary and I'm prepared to accomodate them. Not much more I can do than that.. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-24 Thread David Lyon
against windows development and a bias against native applications. That's fine because I know they are using python on different platforms. I'm working on a proposal to make setup.py object oriented and "modern". http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Proposals So I'm

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-25 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:00:13 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > I think you know quite well what “depend on” means in this instance, > so this is taking it to silly extremes. haha - yes - no offence. It was just bad humour. Have a nice weekend

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-25 Thread David Lyon
ith a simplified UI in the core would be an > option. That sounds ok. > How many users do you have currently? Approx 250 downloads this (first) month for the windows version. I need to extend coverage to Linux and the Mac. Given that I'm relatively new to all this there's a l

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-25 Thread David Lyon
d and installation of any other > binaries. Sure. Who cares if it's not as slick as something else. I'll try when I have time. David ___ 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] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-25 Thread David Lyon
t precise. It doesn't "depend" on setuptools. But it will install setuptools if the user requests to use setuptools/easy_install. So we should only be back to the lack of a TK interface and the fact that the Package Manager Project is a new project, and ne

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-26 Thread David Lyon
, and another to deinstall. At the moment, pythonpkgmgr doesn't handle dependencies except that which is provided internally by easy_install/pip. I'm hoping to change this as my experience and understanding grows. David ___ 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] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-26 Thread David Lyon
ty (e.g. on comp.lang.python) will > be a good way to publicise the tool, and if does meet a need, people > will use it, and then, if it's good enough and popular enough and > supported, it may be blessed by inclusion in the standard library. Thanks very much. Take care.

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
a package in (/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages) via the O/S package manager (ie synaptics/yum/apt) then that should stick over what a developer is doing. But the developer should be able to stick their own packages in their own local space. Correct me if my assertion is wrong. David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
bytes to an old-timer... I know.. it's such a sacrifice.. and we're all working on 300 baud... :-) David ___ 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] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:20 PM, David Lyon wrote: > My only point is that Windows ain't no embedded system. It's not > short on memory or disk space. If a package manager is 5 megabytes > extra say, with it's libraries.. what's the extra download time on > that ?

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:29:14 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >> My only point is that Windows ain't no embedded system. It's not >> short on memory or disk space. If a package manager is 5 megabytes >> extra say, with it's libraries.. what's the extra downlo

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
c.buildout, there's no reason why it couldn't generate a package list in that format, or do an import from a manifest. pythonpkgmgr already can generate a list of local packages as a manifest - but not in the zc.buildout format. I'm sure in the future - I'll figure that one out

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
ed interbasedb yet? They'd already installed it. But perphaps through a .exe installer. David ___ 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] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
UI tool in the Python X.Y programs menu... So I respectfully say that there couldn't be anything less true than the assertion that a GUI package manager is inconsistent within a modern GUI desktop environment. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-27 Thread David Lyon
e and corresponding tool. The same is true if the package was installed with either pip or easy_install. All I can do is put it in my tracker as a bug and deal with it later when I have time. Good point David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-28 Thread David Lyon
27;t isn't always that rational. I'm just accepting that for the moment. David ___ 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] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-28 Thread David Lyon
k I need to watch the movie again to understand what's happening here... Let me go away confused... don't ask me any more questions or elaborate with more answers. Thanks. :-) David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:

Re: [Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

2009-07-28 Thread David Lyon
ndard library will need to adequately balance the interests > of all parties (e.g. as has occurred in the PEP 376 metadata enhancement > discussions). Well at least you are saying that there is some way of reconciling all the different options... There's an awful lot to take in, and there

Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft MSDN

2009-08-13 Thread David Bolen
> > I've received my MSDN subscription today. Everybody watch out for a > message from MSDN! I almost confused the email with spam. > > Thanks for your work and please forward my gratitude to James Rice. Ditto from me (my subscription info arrived yesterday after

Re: [Python-Dev] request for comments - standardization of python's purelib and platlib

2009-08-13 Thread David Lyon
ges > > pros: > + clean separation of purelib - nice! > + unheard of - a good place to start anew > cons: > - FHS states that /usr/share is for data. But OTOH, they don't say much > about platform-independent bytecode. We could probably

Re: [Python-Dev] request for comments - standardization of python's purelib and platlib

2009-08-14 Thread David Lyon
new issue. The problem applies to both linux and windows. Anyway.. do you know the code that we're talking about? David On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:02:03 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11

Re: [Python-Dev] VC++ versions to match python versions?

2009-08-17 Thread David Bolen
. > Ditto for 2.5, 3.1 and the trunk (which I guess becomes 3.2?) 2.5 needs VS 2003. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/p

Re: [Python-Dev] VC++ versions to match python versions?

2009-08-18 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Bolen wrote: > Chris Withers writes: > >> Is the Express Edition of Visual C++ 2008 suitable for compiling >> packages for Python 2.6 on Windows? >> (And Python 2.6 itself for that matter...) > > Yes - it's currently bei

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144: IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python Standard Library

2009-08-27 Thread David Moss
Peter, I would like to apologise if I have caused you any offense. Please can we put the animosity behind us and stick to pulling together the best IP library possible as part of this PEP? Regards, Dave M. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@p

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-17 Thread David Moss
On 17 Sep 2009, at 15:40, Peter Moody wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:26 AM, DrKJam wrote: Please can we have the following RFCs added to the references section that cover many of the aspects covered by this PEP? RFC 791 - Internet Protocol RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Intern

Re: [Python-Dev] conceptual clarity

2009-09-19 Thread David Harrison
2009/9/18 Peter Moody : > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Andrew McNamara > wrote: >>>off to patch the pep and implement some of the non controversial changes. >> >> It might be a good idea to add some use-cases to the PEP. > > There are several use-cases in the PEP already. > > The problem is, f

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format

2009-09-22 Thread David Lyon
Tarek, Are you claiming this as your own work and ideas? Given: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-August/012998.html Regards David On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:21:06 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello > > Here's a wrapup of the Distutils-SIG discussion > we h

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