Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
it. I completely agree with Fred. New features in point releases will cause many more headaches than opening up a 2.8, which I still hope we don't do. I'd rather see all that pent up energy focussed on doing whatever we can to help people transition to Python 3. -Barry signature.

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
e Python 2. Anybody on older (and currently unmaintained) versions of Python 2 will not care about new features so a Python 2.8 wouldn't help them anyway. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 09, 2010, at 09:13 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: >Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> Note that Python 2.7 will be *maintained* for a very long time, which >> should satisfy those folks who still require Python 2. Anybody on >> older (and currently unmaintained) versions o

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
ed to change the language. Now we have >to do what we can to ensure that the changed language has appropriate >support. This is exactly my point - I totally agree. Let's take all that pent up energy and apply it to porting important libraries to Python

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
've tried and failed at least twice to do it in my spare time. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] [Email-SIG] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
nd not just in the stdlib). I think the PSF is best suited to coordinating and managing those efforts, and through its tax-exempt status, collecting and distributing donations specifically targeted to Python 3 work. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial

2010-06-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
ou have in mind, Antoine? I believe the plan was to migrate right after 2.7 final is released. I hope that is still the plan. Since that is only 2 weeks away, are we ready? -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

Re: [Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
ber 2010 release). We're currently concentrating on Python 2.7 as a supported version because it'll be released by then, while 3.2 will still be in beta. If you want to help, or have complaints, kudos, suggestions, etc. for Python support on Ubuntu, you can contact me off-list. -Barry signa

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-- Running this you get: b'\xa5\xcf\xa5\xed\xa1\xbc\xa5\xef\xa1\xbc\xa5\xeb\xa5\xc9\xa1\xaa' ハローワールド! euc-jp Would it be feasible? Dunno. Would it help ease the bytes/str confusion? Dunno. But I think it would help make APIs easier to de

Re: [Python-Dev] red buildbots on 2.7

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
y OS X 10.6.4 box, only test_py3kwarn and test_urllib2_localnet fail. -Barry ___ 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] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
o classifications, kind of like a Linked-in progress meter... -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
ing an ebyte object? (ex: ``eb = ebytes(b, 'euc-jp')``). If ebytes is a separate type, then definitely +1. If 'ebytes is bytes' then I'd probably want to default the second argument to the magical "i-don't-know' marker. -Barry signature.asc Description

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 22, 2010, at 03:08 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >Barry Warsaw writes: > > > Would it make sense to have "encoding-carrying" bytes and str > > types? > >Why limit that to bytes and str? Why not have all objects carry their >serializer/deserialize

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
t;sockets API (or whatever other place you get the bytes from). Unless the default was the "I don't know" marker and you were able to set it after you've done whatever kind of application-level calculation you needed to do. -Barry sig

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
e, does argue for a separate ebytes type. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
ould just return the .string attribute. >In short, +1. (I wish it were possible to go back and make bytes non-strings >and have only this ebytes or bstr or whatever type have string methods, but >I'm pretty sure that ship has already sailed.) Maybe it's PEP time? No, I'

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 21, 2010, at 04:16 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: >At 04:04 PM 6/21/2010 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: >>On Jun 21, 2010, at 01:24 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: >> >> >OTOH, one potential problem with having the encoding on the bytes object >> >rather than the ebytes object i

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
uld know how to accurately convert to a unicode (i.e. __str__()) because it would know the encoding of the bytes. Obviously, it could convert to a pure bytes object. Because it can be accurately stringified, it can have the most if not all of the str API. -Barry signature.asc Description:

Re: [Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

2010-06-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
ing to handle this, though it's probably pretty email package specific. Maybe there's a better, general, or conventional approach lurking around somewhere. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Email%20SIG -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
warning and sleep is a little annoying). * Add a ./configure option to enable this, which Debuntu's build would use. The patch is available here: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/454512/ and my working branch is here: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~barry/python/sovers Please

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >2010/6/24 Barry Warsaw : >> Please let me know what you think.  I'm happy to just commit this to the >> py3k branch if there are no objections .  I don't think a new PEP is >> in order, but an update to PEP 314

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 01:00 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >2010/6/24 Barry Warsaw : >> On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> >>>2010/6/24 Barry Warsaw : >>>> Please let me know what you think.  I'm happy to just commit this to the >>

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 02:28 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >On Jun 24, 2010, at 01:00 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >>2010/6/24 Barry Warsaw : >>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> >>>>2010/6/24 Barry Warsaw : >>>>> Ple

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
tat call, but I know that >is asking too much. I think you're right that with the $SOABI trick above, you wouldn't get the name collisions Guido recalls, and you could get rid of module.so. OTOH, as I am currently only targeting Linux,

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
k it would be confusing, and foo..so looks nice and is consistent with foo..pyc. (Ref to updated patch coming...) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote: >On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> The idea is to put the Python version number in the shared library file >> name, >> and extend .so lookup to find these extended file names. So for example

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 08:50 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: >Le 24/06/2010 17:50, Barry Warsaw (FLUFL) a écrit : >> Other possible approaches: >> * Extend the distutils API so that the .so file extension can be passed in, >>instead of being essentially hardcoded to what Pytho

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

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >Please let me know what you think. I'm happy to just commit this to the py3k >branch if there are no objections . I don't think a new PEP is in >order, but an update to PEP 3147 might make sense. Thanks for all the quick f

[Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
rk for you. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >* Python 2.6.6 rc 1 on Monday 2010-08-02 >* Python 2.6.6 final on Monday 2010-08-16 I've also updated the Google calendar of Python releases: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/b6v58qvojllt0i6ql654r1vh00%40group.calendar.google

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

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
ension instance instead of passing in a string >can most certainly land in distutils2. Cool. -Barry [1] Well, I now realize you'll get an extra useless stat call, but I will fix that. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 25, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Am 25.06.2010 18:18, schrieb Barry Warsaw: >> Benjamin is still planning to release Python 2.7 final on 2010-07-03, so it's >> time for me to work out the release schedule for Python 2.6.6 - likely the >> last main

Re: [Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
push the whole 2.6.6 >> thing later if that works better for you. OTOH, I can't go much earlier so >> if >> September is bad for you, then we'll stick to the above dates. > >I think we can strive for your original proposal. If it slips, we let it >slip by a m

Re: [Python-Dev] what environment variable should contain compiler warning suppression flags?

2010-06-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
ler optimization bug. Yes, but that's *much* more rare than wanting to step through some bit of C code without going crazy. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] what environment variable should contain compiler warning suppression flags?

2010-06-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 28, 2010, at 06:03 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >OPT already uses -O0 if --with-pydebug is used and the >compiler supports -g. Since OPT gets added after CFLAGS, the override >already happens... So nobody's proposing to drop that? Good! Ignore my last message th

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
ries that are version-specific at that >time? This is not the same as placing .py files that are >version-agnostic into a version-agnostic location. It's not a matter of "could", it's a matter of simplicity, and I think versioned .so files are the simplest solution given a

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 26, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: >On 24.06.2010 22:46, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> So, we could say that PEP 384 compliant extension modules would get written >> without a version specifier. IOW, we'd treat foo.so as using the ABI. It >> would then be u

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
ant lxml installed for one but not the other? And even if for some reason you did, the only way to do that would be in a way similar to handling the PEP 3147 pyc files. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
test for sure I'd either need a Python 3 compatible virtualenv or backport my patch to Python 2.6 and 2.7. But still, I'm not sure it would matter since the same shared library import suffix is used in either case. I actually think version-specific search paths would have a greater impa

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
nux OS vendors >(maybe OS X) to manage their installs through their package software. >I honestly do not expect human beings to be mucking around with these >installs (and I suspect Barry doesn't either). Spot on. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
x you should consider when looking for a shared library", which as you point out is already done on Windows. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
sion to a build-time configuration option, and doesn't really change the language, a PEP shouldn't be necessary. But by the same token, I'm willing to write a new one (and *not* touch PEP 3147) just so that we have a point of reference to record the discussion and decision.

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:35 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >Scott Dial wrote: >> On 6/24/2010 5:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >>>> What use case does this address? >>> >>>> If you want to make it so a system can install a package in just one >>>> loca

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

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
again. We can't install _foo.so into /usr/share/pyshared because that's going to be Python ABI-specific. If we can ABI-tag the .so and ensure it will get imported, then we're back to the simpler layout where /usr/share/pyshared is the destination for all installed Python packages. -B

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests?

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
you could install this python-uber-dev package and get everything you needed to build a sumo Python. Hmm, /me goes to hack on his PPA. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

2010-07-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
es in email, I do not think patches in a tracker are the best way to manage these. A dvcs's biggest strength is in branches, so we should use those as much as possible. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

2010-07-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 01, 2010, at 03:26 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: >On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 15:07, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Other than that, while I sometimes review patches in email, I do not >> think patches in a tracker are the best way to manage these.  A >> dvcs's biggest strength is

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

2010-07-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
I know that the bzr mirrors on Launchpad have been zero effort as well. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Signs of neglect?

2010-07-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
heir authors (e.g. Barry is >assigned pygettext bugs) and I’m by no means a gettext expert. It's been a while since I did much pygettext stuff. I think Martin's basically taken it over in recent years. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

2010-07-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 04, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >2010/7/4 Benjamin Peterson : >> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the >> second release candidate of Python 2.7. > >Arg!!! This should, of course, be "final release"

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
API docs from this, a la: http://www.blender.org/documentation/248PythonDoc/ -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

2010-07-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
ould generate shared libs like _multiprocessing.foo.so. I'd like to get consensus as to whether folks feel that a PEP is needed. My own thought is that I'd rather not do a PEP specific to this change, but I would update PEP 384 with the implications on .

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 07, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: >On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:46, Antoine Pitrou >wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:12:17 -0400 >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> On Jul 07, 2010, at 07:30 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: >>> >>> >Overall, I thi

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
ght even remember that the FLUFL was right after all. :) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/

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

2010-07-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
Send" prematurely. I wanted to add that I'd be okay with this >change, be it in a new PEP or an old one. Cool. I'll take Nick up on the suggestion to summarize the thread via a new PEP. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2010-07-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 08, 2010, at 01:47 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >On 07.07.2010 20:40, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Getting back to this after the US holiday. Thanks for running these >> numbers Scott. I've opened a bug in the Python tracker and attached >> my latest patch: >> >

Re: [Python-Dev] python-checkins

2010-07-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
ible for any changes or patches they merge on behalf of others. IME the overhead is pretty trivial, but then I'm quite comfortable with gpg concepts and tools. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list P

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

2010-07-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
inal discussion. -Barry PEP: 3149 Title: ABI version tagged .so files Version: $Revision: 81577 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2010-05-27 19:54:25 -0400 (Thu, 27 May 2010) $ Author: Barry Warsaw Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 2010-07-09 Python-Version: 3.2 Post-Hist

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

2010-07-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:16 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: >2010/7/15 Barry Warsaw : >> The first draft of PEP 3149 is ready for review. > >I like it! Cool! >I think it could mention the case where packages are not installed >in the canonical directory, but placed else

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010

2010-07-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
3.2. This work would reduce the need to recompile >extension modules separately on Windows for every version of Python -- >something especially pertinent when code has been orphaned but is >still useful. The versioned .so files PEP being worked out by Barry >Warsaw overlaps with this

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

2010-07-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
nfigure option (--with-wide-unicode, 16 or 32) > - platform information (necessary?) > If this list changes for coming python versions, then it can be > extended. > Barry pointed out on irc chat that people might want to build > experimental ABI incompatible ver

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

2010-07-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
m name to the tag, but I'd probably define it as part of the implementation field, e.g. foo.cpython-linux2-32m.so. Or maybe start with the platform name, e.g. foo.linux2-cpython-32m. This isn't a strong preference though. Thoughts? -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2010-07-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
ease in length I start to get more concerned. We could encode the platform and architecture, but that gets into cryptic territory. OTOH, would you really co-install i386 and amd64 shared libraries on the same machine? (hello NFS ;). -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

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

2010-07-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >>> I'd be open to adding the >>> platform name to the tag, but I'd probably define it as part of the >>> implementation field, e.g. foo.cpython-

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

2010-07-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
make Python support much more robust. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

2010-07-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 23, 2010, at 08:56 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Barry Warsaw >wrote: >> Python implementations *MAY* include additional flags in the file >> name tag as appropriate.  For example, on POSIX systems these flags >> will also con

Re: [Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

2010-07-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
s himself on his own PEPs. I'd hope that we could always find at least two people to wrangle any PEP, or we've got a bigger problem to deal with! Sounds like EuroPython was fun! -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

2010-07-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Ian Bicking wrote: >On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> On Jul 24, 2010, at 07:08 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >privileges enough. So, my recommendation (which surely is a >> >turn-around of my *own* attitude in

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

2010-07-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
formation or configure argument at all. My usecase is >fairly exotic and I do have a feasible workaround. Cool. In that case, I won't add it. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org htt

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

2010-07-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 24, 2010, at 11:59 PM, sch...@gmail.com wrote: >Barry Warsaw writes: > >> On Jul 23, 2010, at 01:46 PM, sch...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>>Doesn't anybody else think this is lost work for very little gain? My >>>/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages direct

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

2010-07-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
ompile time. For that, you're able to remove a huge amount of complexity on Debian/Ubuntu by removing the need to manage multiple directory trees and symlinks between files in those trees. The tools that manage them (i.e. handle package installs and removals) also get

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

2010-07-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
aintain, leading to increased robustness on the platform. Cheers, -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest)

2010-07-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
there are more. As always, I'd like to see simple APIs on both sides that cover the common 80%. Both Tarek's and Michael's posts and proto-peps are great starts. You guys should definitely write up a plugin PEP! -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[Python-Dev] Bazaar branch of Python 2.7

2010-07-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
lp:python/2.7 Series details are here: https://launchpad.net/python/2.7 Branch details are here: https://code.launchpad.net/~python-dev/python/2.7 Enjoy, -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

[Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" is illegal in Python 2.7?

2010-07-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
if this was intentional or not. It looks like Benjamin's change in r67171 was the relevant diff. Thoughts? Either way I will file a bug. IOW, if this change should *not* have been made, I think it should be reverted for Python 2.7.1 and I can patch

Re: [Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" is illegal in Python 2.7?

2010-07-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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/

Re: [Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" is illegal in Python 2.7?

2010-07-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 31, 2010, at 08:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:44:42 am Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Barry Warsaw >wrote: >> > On Jul 30, 2010, at 01:42 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>Well it is a reserved na

Re: [Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" isillegal in Python 2.7?

2010-07-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
d in 2.7" to __debug__ stating that assignments to __debug__ as an attribute became illegal. From this though, I think it's clear that Benjamin's change was intentional. I will also add this to the NEWS and What's New files for 2.7. -Barry

Re: [Python-Dev] pdb mini-sprint report and questions

2010-07-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
re any other features you would like to see? One feature >of pdb++ that is general enough and has no dependencies would be watch >expressions... ...but watch expressions - and the equivalent of gdb's 'display' command - would be very cool. `interact` would also be useful and p

[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.6 rc 1 planned for today

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
ority&@filter=priority,status&@pagesize=50&@startwith=0&priority=1&status=1&@dispname=Showstoppers Feel free to ping me on irc (freenode @ #python-dev) or follow up here if you have any input on these. I'll send the usually notes out to the committers list when I'm re

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.2 alpha 1

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 02, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:10:58 +0200 >Georg Brandl wrote: >> Thanks, Benjamin! I'd also like to thank Martin and Ronald for the >> prompt binaries, and the folks of #python-dev for support. RMing >> was a pleasant experience so far. > >Are you

[Python-Dev] python-checkins Reply-To now set for python-dev

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
row things, but let's see how it goes. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker down

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
r should I just assume someone else will notice and do something? We've been talking about it on #python-dev and I've sent a message off to our internal emergency list. It's holding up the 2.6.6rc1 release. (No, I do not have access, nor can I answer your questions.) -Barry

Re: [Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" is illegal in Python 2.7?

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 01, 2010, at 09:56 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >2010/7/30 Barry Warsaw : >> >> It looks like Benjamin's change in r67171 was the relevant diff. > >The reason behind this was to make __debug__ assignment consistent >with that of other reserved names. For e

Re: [Python-Dev] No response to posts

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 02, 2010, at 06:57 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >You feel locked out by the current tracker? I do, but that's only because bugs.python.org is currently pinin' for the fjords. ;) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

[Python-Dev] Postponing 2.6.6rc1

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
gain, same time tomorrow: 2200 UTC. Come join us on #python-dev if you want to watch the circus. :) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Uns

[Python-Dev] release26-maint semi-frozen

2010-08-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
on #python-dev or (if you're feeling lucky ;) sending me an email. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83704 - in python/branches/release26-maint: Lib/asyncore.py Misc/ACKS Misc/NEWS

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Giampaolo, Now that we're in quasi-freeze for 2.6.6 final, this is the kind of change I'd like to review before backporting. In this case, I'll let it through, but please check with me first next time. And thanks for your work! -Barry On Aug 04, 2010, at 10:58 AM, giampao

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
essfully navigated the twisty maze, would you be able to write something up on the wiki to describe the steps you've taken? -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/

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

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
le, so this may or may not be workable, and changing any of this will take valuable volunteer time. It's also unsexy work. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/

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

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
will take valuable volunteer time. It's also unsexy work. > >How hard is it to look at a web page? That's not the right question :) The real questions are: how hard is it to remember how to find the appropriate web page, how hard is it to know which buildbots are *actually* stable enoug

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

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
7, 83666, 528, 403 >ARMv4 Debian 3.x*** , 83681, 649, 636 # hung for 30 min >ARMv7Thumb Ubuntu 3.x 83025, 82997, 985, 985 # failed slave lost >[etc.] > >http://code.google.com/p/bbreport/ >hg clone https://bbreport.googlecode.com/hg/ bbreport It would be kind o

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

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
release, I certainly consult both the stable and unstable buildbots, but I always run the full test suite on local platforms I have access too, which covers Linux, OS X, and hopefully soon Windows. #python-dev is helpful here for providing some additional sanity checks. -Barry signature.asc

[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.6 release candidate 1 now available

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
support security fixes in Python 2.6 for quite some time. My thanks go out to everyone who has helped contribute fixes great and small, and much testing and bug tracker gardening for Python 2.6.6. The excellent folks on #python-dev are true Pythonic heros too. Enjoy, -Barry (on behalf of the

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

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
else works under the same restrictions >of time that I do ... and I appreciate all the hard work the release managers >continue to put in. We know you love us Steve. :) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] barry_as_FLUFL

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:48 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: >hmm... BARRY_AS_BDFL and barry_as_FLUFL [...] >nothing noticable happened. I googled the latter, and found that it's >an April Fools (of 2009!) checkin that was never reverted. Wait. It's a joke?! signature.asc Description: PGP signatur

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing #7175: a standard location for Python config files

2010-08-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
ed to mirror /usr/local, then wouldn't a logical place for per-user configuration files be ~/.local/etc/whatever.cfg? -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailm

[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.6 status

2010-08-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
ernoon EST. I'll be hanging out on #python-dev as much as possible over the weekend in case anything crops up. Thanks to everybody who has helped get 2.6.6 to such an awesome state. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83992 - in python/branches/release26-maint: Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py Misc/NEWS

2010-08-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
n 2.6.5". We've decided not to apply any behavior changing patches to Python 2.6 so you'll just have to live with the devil you know here, or upgrade to Python 2.7. Please let me know before Monday if you notice any problems. Again, thanks Eric! -Barry > > >Modified: &

[Python-Dev] time critical: issue 7902 and 2.6.6rc2

2010-08-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
about 6 hours or so. Thanks, -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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

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