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

2010-08-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
Sounds good to me. Thanks for weighing in. -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

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

2010-08-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >Either way, I think we need a 2.6.6rc2 (a thought that's been invading >my dreams all weekend :). This would push back 2.6.6 final to >September 12 or 13. Make that 2.6.6 final on August 24. -Barry signature.asc Description:

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

2010-08-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 17, 2010, at 09:45 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >A bit late (since you already cut rc2), but the key point for me is >that code that is fixed to work correctly on 2.6.6 (where this bug has >been fixed) will still work on any 2.6.x release. Yep, thanks. -Barry signature.asc Descrip

[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.6 release candidate 2 now available.

2010-08-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
. We plan on continuing to support source-only security fixes in Python 2.6 for the next five years. My thanks go out to everyone who has contributed with code, testing and bug tracker gardening for Python 2.6.6. The excellent folks on #python-dev are true Pythonic heros. Enjoy, -Barry (on behalf o

[Python-Dev] PEP 3149 - updated patch

2010-08-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
ep3149.txt and the Launchpad branch: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~barry/python/sovers I'd like to know if anybody has additional feedback, suggestions, or objections that you think still need to be addressed. You can follow up here or in the tracker. Now that 2.6.6 is almost off my

Re: [Python-Dev] 'hasattr' is broken by design

2010-08-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 23, 2010, at 03:45 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >It's generally more convenient that getattr(obj, "blah", None) is not >None. Clearly, the solution is a new builtin called 'Missing'. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

[Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
y releases of Python 2.6 will be made available. After that date, Python 2.6 will no longer be supported, even for security bugs. My deepest appreciation go out to everyone who has helped contribute fixes great and small, and much testing and bug tracker gardening for Python 2.6.6. Enjoy, -Barry

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 24, 2010, at 03:31 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >Python 2.6.6 marks the end of regular maintenance releases for the >Python 2.6 series. From now until October 2013, only security >related, source-only releases of Python 2.6 will be made available. >After that date, Python 2.6 will

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-08-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
purposes, it's a moot point on *nix. -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] PEP 384 status

2010-08-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
3.2 or later Python version as a goal of the PEP, I would >say that allowing mixing of C runtimes is definitely one of the PEP's >goals. It should be explicit about that then, and provide detail about why the runtime is relevant to Windows programmers (and probably not relevant

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
ssing a security concern, but we'll handle that the same way we handle all security related fixes to retired branches. Cheers, -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

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

2010-08-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
ering that Martin is off-line for a while)? If acceptable, I'd like to get this into the tree before 3.2 alpha 2, currently scheduled for September 5. Cheers, -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

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

2010-08-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
brary file name for wide unicodes. It's an issue for PEP 384. -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] PEP 3149 accepted

2010-09-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
accepted, its use can fade out again >* it is a strictly optional feature > >Barry promised the code will go in before this weekend's alpha2, so >that distributors can subject the new code to proper testing, should >they choose to use PEP 3149 features. Thanks very much Georg an

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-09-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
your responsibility to shepherd your PEP through the process. Don't be a pest, but do keep an eye on the release calendar so that you're not scrambling for a snap decision at the last minute. 18 months can go by quickly. :) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 accepted

2010-09-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
accepted, its use can fade out again >* it is a strictly optional feature > >Barry promised the code will go in before this weekend's alpha2, so >that distributors can subject the new code to proper testing, should >they choose to use PEP 3149 features. Once again, thanks. C

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84536 - sandbox/trunk/release/release.py

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
end = i > break > with open('Misc/NEWS', 'w', encoding="utf-8") as fp: >- fp.writelines(lines[:start+1]) >+ fp.writelines(lines[:start+2]) > fp.write(NEWS_TEMPLATE) > fp.writelines(lines[end-

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
tinues installing files into lib-dynload? See above. It is not the intent of this PEP to change the installation directories. Distributions have all the other tools they need to get the files into the right place for their layouts. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
stributions install third party package modules (``.pyc`` and ``.so`` files) into `/usr/share/pyshared`[...] -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
ows. >> That section is talking about files installed by distributions, >> which need to take special steps to get everything >> into /usr/{lib,share}/pyshared; a standard out-of-the-tarball >> install will not change the way it is installed. >> >> It may well

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
the point is *I* don't know! I'm not a Windows developer, and I'm still unable to even build Python on Windows 7 with VS2010. In the absence of a Windows developer explicitly saying that it's useful, and offering to help implement it, then we'll just leave it for c

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
ib. This keeps confusing me, despite not being >part of the specification. I don't, as you should now see. -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] r84775 - peps/trunk/pep-3149.txt

2010-09-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
doesn't say how a distribution >is supposed to choose its PEP 3149 filesystem layout (instead of >/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages). Why should it? Distributions are going to make their own decisions independent of the PEP. That's why s/would/might/ in the above change. I'm

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

2010-09-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 13, 2010, at 05:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:55:16 -0400 >Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Sep 13, 2010, at 04:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> -/usr/share/pyshared/foo.cpython-32m.so >> >> -/usr/share/pyshared/foo.cpyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
a bit; no heavy >re-architecting, but simply a bunch of changes to make it higher-level. >Is it acceptable? > >(and, yes, I would add a test suite) Heartily +1. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@p

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
ing to do) from the stdlib when it comes time to port Mailman to py3k. -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.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
er, useful, and more generally applicable techniques for dealing with byte/strings in these contexts. That would be time well spent, and may transfer to work on the email package too for example. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
is beyond me ... I'll note one other thing. Mailman 3 intends[*] to provide NNTP access directly to its archives, exactly because IMO it's so much better to read old mail that way. >PPS: What makes you think the email package transition is complete? Heh. -Barry [0] 'round

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
ncludes improvements to the stdlib. In fact, with the moratorium in place, I'm hoping *most* of the incredible Pythonic brain power will be devoted to Python 3 stdlib improvements. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6.6 is a release candidate?

2010-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/ > >..includes the text: > >"This is a release candidate; we currently support these formats:" > >Is that text meant to be there? Nope, and fixed. Thanks

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
. I of course did not find the time :/ so it hasn't happened yet. Of course, the set of platforms, Python versions, and packages we care about is much narrower than the full Python community, but it would still be an interesting exercise. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.x as the official release

2010-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
unds unlikely but may not be any more incompatible >than making it work properly :-). I would much prefer holding up the release to fix wsgiref rather than remove it. I think it's an important module worthy of being in the stdlib. -Barry signature.asc D

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
ies like tox (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tox) >for doing all of this now. > >Manpower and time prohibit it This might make for a fun sprint at Pycon 2011. It's closer than you think. (Well, maybe not closer than Jesse thinks :). -Barry signature.asc

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.x as the official release

2010-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 15, 2010, at 09:21 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: >Am 15.09.2010 20:32, schrieb Barry Warsaw: >> I would much prefer holding up the release to fix wsgiref rather >> than remove it. I think it's an important module worthy of being in >> the stdlib. > >Really? I

Re: [Python-Dev] (Not) delaying the 3.2 release

2010-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
hich really wants to be working with raw bytes (e.g. >URLs coming off the wire). Note that email has exactly the same problem. A general solution -- even if embodied in *well documented* best-practices and convention -- would really help make the stdlib work consistently, and I bet third party li

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 Won't Build

2010-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
s. When you say "installed python 2.7" do you mean the one you installed to /usr/local from a from-source build, or something else (e.g. a Python 2.7 package perhaps)? >And I will file a bug report soon unless that is inappropriate. Sure. Please +nosy me. But I think something e

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 Won't Build

2010-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 16, 2010, at 02:56 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:36, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> When you say "installed python 2.7" do you mean the one you >> installed to /usr/local from a from-source build, or something else >> (e.g. a Python 2.7

Re: [Python-Dev] Polymorphic best practices [was: (Not) delaying the 3.2 release]

2010-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
for example, if you had a valid RFC 2047 encoded Subject but a broken X-Foo header, you'd at least still end up with a Message object. The value of the good headers would be things from which you can get the unicode value, the raw bytes value, parse its parameters, munge it, etc. whil

Re: [Python-Dev] Polymorphic best practices [was: (Not) delaying the 3.2 release]

2010-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
e what we implement in email. Just as a point of order, to the extent that we're discussing generic approaches to similar problems across multiple modules, it's okay that we're having this discussion on python-dev. But the email-sig has put in a lot of work on specific API and

Re: [Python-Dev] Polymorphic best practices [was: (Not) delaying the 3.2 release]

2010-09-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
ader("From", "Accented Bàrry ") >m.add_body("Hello Barry") Very often you'll start with a template of a message your application wants to send. Then you'll interpolate a few values into it, and you'd like to easily convert the result into an RFC valid

Re: [Python-Dev] Polymorphic best practices [was: (Not) delaying the 3.2 release]

2010-09-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
should have the option to leave the bytes of that payload in a disk cache and transparently load it when necessary. I think we should keep that in mind, but it's way down on the list of "gotta haves" for email6. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting raw bytes data in urllib.parse.* (was Re: Polymorphic best practices)

2010-09-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
one else see Stephen's mail via the list (as opposed to >being a direct recipient)? I remember seeing a message from Stephen on this topic, but I didn't read it though and it's deleted now ;). I don't use gmail regularly. See also: http://wiki.list.org/x/2IA9

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

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
le. These docs are better off in the wiki than in the source tree. -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] Moving the developer docs?

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
agree that the wiki feels less official, or perhaps that it *should* feel any less official. It's an important source of Pythonic information, and to me it feels much more inclusive and open. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Pyt

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

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: >-1 on wiki; wikis are where good information goes off to die. Well, *all* documentation requires vigilance to remain relevant and current. I'm sure you don't think the Python wiki is useless, right? ;) -Barry signature.asc Des

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

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
an be handled by the rare footnotes or whatever. IMHO of course, -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] Moving the developer docs?

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: >On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Barry Warsaw >wrote: >> On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: >> >>>-1 on wiki; wikis are where good information goes off to die. >> >> Well, *all* documentatio

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
to help garden or reorganize the wiki? -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] Moving the developer docs?

2010-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
get good contributors and the rest of the community starts linking to wiki urls, it will feel (more) official. Anyway, it's all kind of secondary to actually writing stuff down. If Brett's going to do the work, then he gets to decide. :) -Barry signatur

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

2010-09-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
it PEP 3333, then? ;-) That works for me. -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] hg conversion: tags

2010-09-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
ld keep a mapping from new to old though. If that's not possible within the hg repository, can we at least generate a text file or some such and commit that? -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
improve the world of open source mail archivers by getting involved in the Mailman project and helping us build the next generation archiver. :) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] Resource leaks warnings

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
dule.) I don't think it should be in the gc module, but I would prefer it be enabled and controlled through a separate module, rather than something Python does automatically for your convenience. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Py

Re: [Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
fable change so I see no reason to keep the old tags (we can decide later if we'll want new tags in the main Python repo). >- get rid of all other tags +1. We'll always have the Subversion repository for the historical record. It'll make future mining a bit more difficult

Re: [Python-Dev] Atlassian and bitbucket merge

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
or about the same amount of babysitting as the current Subversion repository? I would think no more and Subversion hasn't been much of a problem. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://

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

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
, let's not let it wait until Pycon 2011 (*2 years* after pronouncement) [1]. -Barry [1] Apologies for sounding critical of any individual - that's not my intent. Dirkjan and folks have done a lot of great work to this point and ISTM that we're *really* close. Le

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

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
hange should be accepted or not. A reviewer often wants to do a build with the changes, test them on various tasks and application, run the test suite, etc. For this, "merge" is much better than patch(1). -Barry signature.asc Description

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

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
problem halting a review right there and asking the developer to ensure a conflict-free merge. It's of course at the reviewer's discretion to assist them with this (e.g. by branching their branch, resolving the conflicts, committing and publishing this clean branch, for the original deve

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

2010-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:30:10 -0400 >Barry Warsaw wrote: >> One other thought: IME patches in general are suboptimal to >> branches, so I think we should be encouraging people to publish >> their branches publicly

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

2010-09-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
The torrential rains are causing havoc with my internet, so apologies for replying out of sequence. On Sep 30, 2010, at 07:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >Sorry for following up to myself, but this typo might be very >confusing: > >Stephen J. Turnbull writes: > > B

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

2010-09-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
iewed for the good of the project. * Have a dispute resolution process. If a reviewer and coder can't agree, appeal to a higher authority. As review team leader, I did occasionally have to break ties. * Record the reviewer in the commit messages. We had highly structured commit message

Re: [Python-Dev] Branching without losing your build products [was: We should be using a tool for code reviews]

2010-10-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 01, 2010, at 01:09 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >Barry Warsaw writes: > > > I should note that I don't particularly like colocated/named > > branches. I personally much prefer separate directories for each > > feature or bug I'm working on. It helps m

Re: [Python-Dev] Celebrating issue #10000

2010-10-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
he system >running, and the PostgreSQL database has really validated it's >own claim of being the world's most advanced open source >database. Agreed! Roundup has been a joy to use. Martin is to be profusely thanked too for all of his ongoing work on our python.org reso

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

2010-10-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
e the fix really is trivial, or a change is large but mechanical, or when no reviewer can be found for a time-sensitive fix (very rare). You at least need to record the rubber stamp in the commit message, and be prepared to defend it if it trips up someone's post-commi

[Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
match on bare .so. not good for non-distutils based build processes. Do you have any other ideas? If not, what would your preference from the above be? Right now I think I'd go with changing the PEP 3149 naming scheme to not end in .so (i.e. option #1). Cheers, -Barry signatur

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 02, 2010, at 02:24 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:06:57 -0400 >Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> With my branch, you'll end up with this in /tmp/python: >> >> bin/python3.2m - the normal build binary >> bin/python3.2dmu -

Re: [Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
no automatically generated link to the review, but I did add some comments to the Rietveld issue you linked to in one of your comments. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 02, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: >Am 02.10.2010 00:06, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > >> The reason is that the import.c logic that uses the struct filedescr >> tables built from _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab are just not smart enough >> to handle this case. All i

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 02, 2010, at 04:50 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Antoine Pitrou >wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:06:57 -0400 >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> >>> With my branch, you'll end up with this in /tmp/python: >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
ecessary low-level stuff to allow the distro installation scripts to move things around and create the symlinks after the fact. This would mean that other distros (or from-source installers) wouldn't benefit from the isolation feature without some extra work on their part though. It w

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 02, 2010, at 01:40 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >Besides, mingling different installations together makes uninstalling >much more difficult. Not for a distro I think. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 01, 2010, at 07:36 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >2010/10/1 Barry Warsaw : >> I can think of a couple of ways out, none of which are totally >> satisfying. Probably the easiest out is to change the PEP 3149 >> naming so that the files don't end in &qu

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 04, 2010, at 09:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:41:11 -0400 >Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> For a distro, all those Python binaries have to go in /usr/bin. We >> already symlink /usr/bin/python to pythonX.Y so I don't see the harm >> in

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
esn't seem to be. >(this also means that tools such as file managers etc. may not display >the file type properly) Okay. I'll try to modify the patch to put the build-flags before the .so when --enable-shared is given. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 05, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >-On [20101004 20:48], Barry Warsaw (ba...@python.org) wrote: >>On Oct 02, 2010, at 01:40 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >>>Besides, mingling different installations together makes uninstalling >>>mu

Re: [Python-Dev] issue 9807 - a glitch in coexisting builds of different types

2010-10-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
ll cause problems on >FreeBSD and probably the other BSDs (DragonFly, NetBSD, OpenBSD) and >most likely Mac OS X as well. Fair enough. I will change the patch to move the build flags when --enable-shared is used. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes

2010-10-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
really get involved with, and indeed Mailman has built up a raft of defense for failures of this kind. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Uns

Re: [Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes

2010-10-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
for addressing this problem. -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] Distutils2 scripts

2010-10-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
faict, distutils2 could easily use it. In any case, these could be a simple shell script wrapping 'python -m setup'. It could even take a --use-python-version option to select the pythonX.Y it used, without having to encode the Python version number in the script name. -Barry sign

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

2010-10-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 08, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >python-setup is a lot like python setup.py >pysetup is shorter >pyegg is even shorter :-) wfm! -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@p

Re: [Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes

2010-10-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
in consideration when changes are discussed. But ultimately, Python must evolve to stay relevant or it will die. This is where competing design trade-offs must be discussed. If not here, by us, then where and by whom? -Barry [*] Mostly instituted to allow alternative implementations to catch

Re: [Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes

2010-10-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 09, 2010, at 02:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >Right. That's where I was going with my comment to Barry about the >Received headers. Even if email isn't going to serve clients working >with wire format, it needs to deal with those headers. But where I >think

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

2010-10-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
setup.sh' (or whatever) take a --python-version option to select the python executable to use. Whatever solution is implemented definitely needs to take the multiple-installed pythons into account. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r85463 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_import.py

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
) >+TESTFN, self.tag, __debug__ and 'c' or 'o' You might want to use imp.cache_from_source() instead for consistency. > > @unittest.skipUnless(os.name == 'posix', > "test meaningful only on p

[Python-Dev] Issue 10094

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
the bug. This only happens on Ubuntu 10.10 machines (afaict so far), both i386 and x86_64. It does not happen on Ubuntu 10.04 64bit VMs, nor does it happen on Debian squeeze. I'll continue to investigate, but since it's damn perplexing I just wanted to see if anybody had any thoughts o

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 10094

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Could it be IPv6? I don't think so. I have IPv6 disabled on at least one of the machines. Also, I'm sure this failure did not occur before Ubuntu 10.10 final. It also fails on Python 3.1. -Barry signature.asc Description:

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 10094

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
bet those Ubuntu buildbots are not running Maverick. Oh well, mystery solved at least. I'll work on a patch. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r85486 - python/branches/py3k/configure

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
nge too, and since it's a generated file, I think svn blame on configure is kind of useless. Should we appoint an autoconf BDFL who can commit changes after configure.in is changed? Is it possible to pin the autoconf version (not just floor it)? -Barry signature.as

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r85486 - python/branches/py3k/configure

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 14, 2010, at 09:11 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I don't see it as any more of a problem than upgrading against other >> dependencies (like gcc?). > >Ok, so let's drop the requirement then. Good for me. Is there a place where this requirement is documen

Re: [Python-Dev] Locked-in defect? 32-bit hash values on 64-bit builds

2010-10-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
bout freezing the >ABI in 3.2. Yes, but there's less than a month left before 3.2 beta 1, and then it *will* be too late, at least for this release. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] r85559 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/sys.rst Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py Lib/test/test_sys.py Makefile.pre.in Misc/python-config.

2010-10-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
p:`3149`. >> + > >Needs a versionadded. Also, I think we at least tried to maintain a rough >alphabetical order of sys members... Thanks, good catch. r85571 -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] About resolution “accepted ” on the tracker

2010-10-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
Raymond; I've always used 'accepted' to mean an approved patch. -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.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] My work on Python3 and non-ascii paths is done

2010-10-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
ulate_path) and the import machinery (import.c, zipimport.c), because >gdb does sometimes crash (for various reasons) and because the import >machinery is fragile and difficult to understand. You are also a master of the understatement! :) -Barry signatur

Re: [Python-Dev] [patch] fpconst for python3

2010-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
contains guides to porting Python code and C code, but I think it should also contain pages that coordinate porting efforts for packages on Cheeseshop and in distros. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] My work on Python3 and non-ascii paths is done

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
t;follow the function calls to get the encoding. That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks. I think you've learned a huge amount of good information that's difficult to find, so writing it up in a more permanent and easy to find location will really help future Python develope

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1.3 and 2.7.1 release schedule

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
this year, not next :). +1 from me! -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] 3.1.3 and 2.7.1 release schedule

2010-10-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
ication > does not get harmed. > > As a side note - I don't think two release candidates are really > necessary. So if it helps, it may be reasonable to drop one of them. > OTOH, I don't mind having two RCs, either. > > Regards, > Marti

Re: [Python-Dev] r85838 - python/branches/py3k/.gitignore

2010-10-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
source ones (svn, hg, >bzr, git) seems reasonable enough. +1. A couple of extra dot files never hurt anyone. :) -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/

2010-10-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
t;within the standard library, but I don't think it is a price worth paying in >this particular case. +1 (or more). :) or-maybe-you'd-prefer-more-^L-y y'rs, -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing l

Re: [Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/

2010-10-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
ile would cause. -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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