Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-17 Thread Steve Holden
pletely controlled from > the master side, and then uploading the resulting dmg file. I'd be > happy to help coordinate any experiments offline if you're interested. > > I do currently have a DMG built for 2.7 Beta 1, if it would be useful. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

2010-04-18 Thread Steve Holden
t and > convenient for 40%, would you remove it? Really? > IMO, removal of a feature which is used by 40% is out of the question; > and if removal is, deprecation is as well. > > Back to the actual numbers: dropping the argument is impossibl

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

2010-04-18 Thread Steve Holden
> | > | Both are ok for me. "-v" as a shortcut for "--version" looks wrong, though. > | "-v" is almost always used for verbosity these days. > > My view is the same. I don't expect -v to be one or the other, and I certainly don't expect th

Re: [Python-Dev] MSDN licenses available for python-dev

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Holden
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:01:54 -0500, Brian Curtin a écrit : >> The recent threads on builds/installers for Mac and Windows reminded me >> of Steve Holden's push to get the python-dev team equipped via a >> connection with the Microsoft Open Source T

Re: [Python-Dev] MSDN licenses available for python-dev

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Holden
Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 19, 2010, at 08:14 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:48, Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>> Le Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:01:54 -0500, Brian Curtin a écrit : >>>>> The recent thr

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
ing the barriers of entry is a desirable goal. If adding people created work for already-busy developers then I'd be against it*, but with Sean offering to mentor his new protege and ensure that he limits his role to triage initially that doesn't seem to be an issue. Maybe it's ti

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-26 Thread Steve Holden
ody will have to make a decision, and that > is "work". > Well, I'm sorry to have put you to the work of penning that reply, when you could have used the effort instead to triage a bug. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talk

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-26 Thread Steve Holden
omething you write in a statement. Some of the comments in this thread have seemed positively unwelcoming, even though I doubt that was the authors' intention. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 ht

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:15:01 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: [...] > For the record, note that both Antoine and I have been instrumental in > bringing more than one new person into both the triage and the committer > ranks. We (along with others) *are* the on

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
body would make an decision ultimately, one which both proponents > and opponents of the PEP would accept. > > Without a BDFL, I think we need a committee to make decisions, e.g. by > majority vote amongst committers. Couldn't we just go with the FLUFL? regards Steve -- Steve Ho

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
back now). As a starting point, Barry would have to indicate whether he > is interested in that role. > If he isn't then we can depose him and replace him with a puppet. regards Steve PS: Barry: sorry I can't make the gig tonight. Hope it went well ... -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
ughout the civilized world. > The last time I was in a UK builders' yard I hear someone asking for "two meter pieces of two by four". At the time the UK was notionally metric (and the timber was planed to the nearest metric size) but the old names still survived. regards

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-05-03 Thread Steve Holden
lease. There's plenty to do without having to fight that issue too. I'm copying this message to Rich Leland, who is currently making a study of the PSF's web requirements, to make sure this gets folded in. Many of the tasks are essentially macrogeneration, and unless automated will r

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base

2010-05-03 Thread Steve Holden
rdize all C files on a 4-spaces > indentation rule? > > I understand the "svn annotate" argument, but we edit code far more often > than we annotate it. Also, it seems "svn ann -x -w" would ignore > whitespace changes. > Let's not forget to consider what Hg

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible patch for functools partial - Interested?

2010-05-07 Thread Steve Holden
operator.add) >> p2 = p1 > > I thought the OP gave a use-case. He's generating "jobs" (partial > applied to a callable and arguments), and wanted to avoid duplicated > jobs. > > I think it is reasonable to expect that partial(operator.add, 2) > compares equa

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-23 Thread Steve Holden
n Java and > C++ and (at least in Java) it is used extensively and without too much > trouble. If there are implementation bugs then we can fix them just like > we would with any other module. > I don't see the availability of this functionality in those languages as any kind of rea

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-23 Thread Steve Holden
Jesse Noller wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > ...snip... > >>>> Issues like the ones I'm bringing up could be fixed pretty >>>> straightforwardly if it were just a matter of filing a bug on a small >>>> package,

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Holden
org which would break backward compatibility. IMO it would make > more > sense to leave this module as a top-level module for now (a sibling to > "threading", "multiprocessing"). > Unless there's some way of having the two namespaces (existing and concurrent

Re: [Python-Dev] Bugfix releases should not change APIs

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Holden
ys seems to happen when the rule is broken; 2) But we may wish to release 3.1.2.1(?) which backports fixes from the 3.2 line but retains the file store semantics (which I am assured will be easy in the glorious reign of Hg). Surely some compatible "shim" layer could have been intro

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

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
ypothetical 2.8 development team. > How does throwing away information represent "moving forward"? I have to say I am surprised by the current lack of momentum behind 3.x, but I do know users who consider that their current investment in the 2.x series is unlikely to migrate to 3

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

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
dev community, anybody else except R. David Murray) haven't really come to grips with intractable problems like the broken state of the email package, and we are not doing well at attracting funds to support it. So I think we need to address a larger issue than just the language. As a deve

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

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/9/2010 10:42 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>> Steve Holden wrote >>>> How does throwing away information represent "moving forward"? > > 'Closing' a tracker issue does not 'throw away' information', it *a

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

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
e all that pent up energy focussed on doing whatever we can to help > people transition to Python 3. > Though one might ironically suggest that sticking to the policy actually represents a change in policy :) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Pyt

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

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Holden
ibrary support, and they are the guys who see the issues day in day out so it is hard to argue with them (and I don't think an autocratic decision-making process would be appropriate). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.

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

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
channel is just > a signpost pointing at an empty room. > Which is yet another reason I don't think it would be productive to attempt any kind of pre-emptive action against the #python team. They do serve a very useful purpose, and there is reasoned logic behind their position even if we mig

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
and would like to tap your developer creativity in helping to define how the Foundation can effectively commit more developer time to Python. GSoC and GHOP are great examples, but there is plenty of room for all sorts of initiatives that result in development opportunities. I'd like to hel

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

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
atter as the > other thing. > > > Thanks again for everyone's input on all of python-dev, #python, > #python-offtopic, > Laurens > And thanks for engaging so directly and responsively. The Python community has impressed me again with its maturity. regards

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

2010-06-21 Thread Steve Holden
ly need to make this move. > > I agree we have to make it at some point but I feel this is way, way too > early. > > thanks for your continued input, > Laurens But it's never too early to plan for something you know to be inevitable. More planning might have helped ear

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

2010-06-21 Thread Steve Holden
a problem - they could probably be done at a gross level). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holde

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

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Holden
ake a major step forward. This won't be a campaign with a victorious charge over some imaginary finish line. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.

Re: [Python-Dev] "2 or 3" link on python.org

2010-06-24 Thread Steve Holden
Stephen Thorne wrote: > On 2010-06-25, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> Am 25.06.2010 01:28, schrieb Stephen Thorne: >>> Steve Holden Wrote: >>>> Given the amount of interest this thread has generated I can't help >>>> wondering why it isn'

Re: [Python-Dev] docs - Copy

2010-06-24 Thread Steve Holden
nal list (not copies of those objects). A deep copy would need to copy any referenced lists, and so on. > Can this be updated? Or someone explain to me why it's correct? > It sounds correct to me. regards Steve > Cheers > > Example: > > >>>> t = [1, 2, 3] >&g

[Python-Dev] Signs of neglect?

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
2 due out? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ "All I want for my birthday is anothe

Re: [Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
to actually be a performance issue, you > can always deal with it later, with a custom string type." I'm > confident that in *most* cases, it would not be. > Well that would be a nice win. > Anyway, this may be a serious issue, but I increasingly feel like I'm > veeri

Re: [Python-Dev] docs - Copy

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
thon. > > No no no. [...] It isn't always easy to tell, but I think Martin meant "no". regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
work for me. If schedule slips in any way, we'll have > to move the release into end-of-September (but the days as proposed are > fine). > > Regards, > Martin A six-week slippage wouldn't be good. What's the relevant chaos theory when a one- or two-day hold lead

Re: [Python-Dev] "2 or 3" link on python.org

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
to what version >> to download. > > Ah, ok. No, nobody has taken ownership of that project, and likely, > nobody actually will - unless you volunteer. > Or perhaps spur the pydotorg community on with some well-placed encouragement. Nobody ever seems to say "thanks" to t

Re: [Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
gt; 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 month or two. > >

Re: [Python-Dev] Signs of neglect?

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Holden
Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Benjamin Peterson > wrote: >> 2010/6/25 Steve Holden : >> I would call it more a sign of no tests rather than one of neglect and >> perhaps also an indication of the usefulness of those tools. > > Less t

[Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
ily just do a timing of test_mailbox under 2.6 and 3.2, to verify they see the same disparity as me? The test takes about twice as long under 3.1 here (and I am concerned that unexercised aspects of the code may extend real-world problem run times by an order of magnitude or more). regards St

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
> Nick. > Thanks for all the timings! If a Windows user could do the same thing that would help ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.co

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Command line: ./python -m test.regrtest -v test_mailbox >> >> trunk: Ran 274 tests in 25.239s >> py3k: Ran 268 tests in 26.263s >> >> So I don't see any substantial difference on a Kubuntu 10.04 box (both >

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

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
ithout going crazy. I agree - trying to step through -O2 optimized code isn't going to help debug your code, it's going to help you debug the optimizer. That's a very rare use case. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video!

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:40:50AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> I will leave the profiler output to speak for itself, since I can find >> nothing much to say about it except that there's a hell of a lot of >> decoding going on inside mailbox.iterk

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
uot; how? The ultimate destiny of the text is twofold: 1) To be stored as some kind of LOB in a database, and 2) Therefrom to be reconstituted and parsed into email.Message objects. Is the wrapping a one-off operation or a software layer? Sorry, being a bit dense here, I know. regards

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:54:09 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> A.M. Kuchling wrote: >>> But should mailboxes really be opened in a UTF-8 encoding, or should >>> they be treated as 7-bit text? I'll have to think about this. >> Neit

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:02:14 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>> - wrap the binary stream in a text stream >> "wrap" how? The ultimate destiny of the text is twofold: > > I would imagine Guido i

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

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Holden
nging this up years ago. I think that > "unexpected" is a bad term and should be renamed to reflect the fact > that the test was skipped because an optional third-party package was > not included. A "dependency skip", perhaps? > Or simply output why a certain tes

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
x27;s innards. http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-adding-a-new-statement-to-python/ regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunit

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
ve to > see about that. > And, as always, a way to get better insight and help speed the process along is to join the cast ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://p

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

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
about, I wonder if you couldn't > write one decent patch instead of ten complaining mails, and make both > you and us happier in the process. > +1 That's the spirit, Georg. Anatoly, I had an email along these lines saved pending transmission, but I have deleted it now. Let'

Re: [Python-Dev] Are you ready for Mercurial migration?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
tweeting "tweet me for an invite to the wave") is that you have to persist, and learn different habits for each set of collaborators. I suppose I should approve of it on account of how it improves geek social skills. If the wave were to result in good documentation about how to *get* ready th

Re: [Python-Dev] Are you ready for Mercurial migration?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
Perhaps at this stage you could actually start producing, then, and use up a bit less bandwidth on this channel (on this matter, at least) until you have results to report? regards Steve anatoly techtonik wrote: > Antoine, I value you contribution to `hgsvn` project, and this thread > is

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:55:56 -0400 > Steve Holden wrote: >> Fred Drake wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>> The two sets of repositories use different conversion tools and rules. >>>> They ha

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
hout a >>> proliferation of mirrors/repos/etc. >>> >>> Also, we're not staying on subversion - well, as far I know. >> At least not parallel to Mercurial. Definitely. >> >> Georg > > Well, I was worried I missed a meeting in the secret clubhouse

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
ause a change in another > one, then certainly that's a sign that they should be in the same > repo. > > But for the windows issue, using subrepo so that when you clone python > repo, you get the exact same versions of C libraries as used for the > official msi (tk, tcl, op

Re: [Python-Dev] Licensing // PSF // Motion of non-confidence

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Holden
ast to simplify the license of Python > but this would require agreement from the current rights owners > including CWI and CNRI. IIRC not all of the rights owners are willing > to agree to a change. > That is the current position. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266

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

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Holden
>> will cost. > > I would be happy to relicense it under the Python license. > I believe the ideal outcome, if it is possible, is for you to sign a contributor agreement. This will license your material to the PSF in such a way that we can release it under whatever lice

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

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Holden
mat__ can be set appropriately. See: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#id42 > That is _so_ Python 2 ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://p

Re: [Python-Dev] Can ftp url start with file:// ?

2010-07-09 Thread Steve Holden
I see no reason to introduce the > 2.x behaviour into Python 3. > > So I'd say there's nothing to do. > Paul. This /could/ become a bugfix in 2.7.x if people thought it was a sufficiently egregious bug to need fixing. Given that the matter is only now coming to light it's proba

Re: [Python-Dev] Can ftp url start with file:// ?

2010-07-11 Thread Steve Holden
Presumably a hostname in such a URI would require that some host-specific protocol be used (but this should be an access protocol like SMB or NFS, not a transfer protocol like FTP). It seems pretty clear that randomly interpreting particular host names to imply a specific remote-access prot

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread Steve Holden
s in a certain amount of discussion and comparison with tools like Wing, PythonWin and so on. Which in itself isn't a bad thing, but IDLE complares so badly with the other products that I sometimes feel Python suffers by association. IDLE has simplicity on its side, but every way it interacts wi

Re: [Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-12 Thread Steve Holden
dow: its window is not even activated when a menu command > acts on it. > I agree, the tear-off menus are an anachronism. I'd also like a pony in the form of easily-changeable sets of keystroke mappings. I have never found Alt-P and its cousins either memorable or comfortable. I won&

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-14 Thread Steve Holden
u, but the fact that it can deter stalwarts like Mark perhaps indicate that a little caution should be applied when dealing with newcomers or "outsiders". Without, I trust, spoiling the fun for the regulars. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 8

Re: [Python-Dev] Peculiar import code in pickle.py

2010-07-14 Thread Steve Holden
port.c because of the > annoying issues it causes and I expect the correct approach to gain > traction at some point (plus get importlib bootstrapped in so I don't > have to care about import.c anymore). > It's only a matter of time until someone decides to provide a C

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-14 Thread Steve Holden
e likely to be present. > > The other problem I have is being dropped or timed out, and not > having/knowing a way to get auto-reconnected to the channel. Thus, I > could miss a response even if I do get one. > Speak to the twisted guys. It's about a line-and-a-half of code to run a

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Holden
top for a new top level > window. This is supported by, among others, Firefox; Chrome; gedit; > and GNOME Terminal. > Time used to be we would innovate, not imitate, but I suppose that convergence has changed things. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3

Re: [Python-Dev] IDLE contributors and committers

2010-07-17 Thread Steve Holden
mmitters who have both the inclination /and/ the time to do this, so adding Tal (and other interested parties) as a developer makes a lot of sense. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://d

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Holden
gt;> programmer guide. > > Wha? How could this not be the right place? He's not asking about > USING python, but asking: WHERE in the PYTHON CODE BASE does the > signal get checked? > > A-bit-miffed-at-the-cold-shoulderly yours, > > Marcos (wink wink) +1 Ano

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-dev signal-to-noise processing question

2010-07-20 Thread Steve Holden
ust so people realise that although they are being sent away for good reason, if they are interested in joining the dev community there is material to help and guide them. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon

Re: [Python-Dev] Does trace modules have a unit test?

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Holden
ould be justified. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___

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

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Holden
be integrated with the rest somehow. I do not imagine that this will be an easy issue to resolve, but a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://

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

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Holden
> that, if it helps (though most of my experience is not with the > Debian-based distributions). > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan Copying this message to the mod_wsgi author/maintainer, who should be able to give us sound advice on this (as should Ian, but he's a secondary server for

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382 progress: import hooks

2010-07-23 Thread Steve Holden
ambiguities in the spec, e.g.: > > "If fullname is not found, is not a package, or does not have any > *.pth files, None must be returned." > > What does "is not a package" actually mean in that context? > > > The module is a mod

Re: [Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Holden
er community involvement, and I think that your suggestions about opening up the developer community will also help relay the message that people are welcome to help on other aspects of Python such as the cheese shop. > For a hopefully eventually exhaustive overview of

Re: [Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

2010-07-27 Thread Steve Holden
be taught how to turn rev + >>> component into a link to the appropriate repository. >> >> I still think that one tracker per project/site is the better way. > > Only if they have similar look and feel, and don't require you to > register the same login N t

Re: [Python-Dev] No response to posts

2010-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
development process (just as for others > posting to Python-dev will be their first contact - even if they really > should be posting to comp.lang.python instead). > I agree with Michael that response to first issue posting is an important potential recruitment channel. It's impo

Re: [Python-Dev] No response to posts

2010-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
le are happier focusing purely on technical issues, and that's fine. But let's not let that stop us trying to build a crew of ambassadors to take care of the more touchy-feely side of things as long as it operates to the language's ultimate benefit. It takes all sorts to ma

Re: [Python-Dev] No response to posts

2010-08-03 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/3/2010 4:56 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Steve Holden writes: > > > No, you don't, and the current discussion about how to ensure that bug > > reporters get at least the courtesy of a relatively quick reply is one > > of the most promising develop

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 376 proposed changes for basic plugins support

2010-08-03 Thread Steve Holden
ould strongly recommend looping in the Python packaging teams from > various distros *before* adding another such cache, unless you want to > be fielding bugs from Launchpad.net <http://Launchpad.net> for five > years :). > +1 -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 49

[Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-03 Thread Steve Holden
ndows skillz into the group that could assist at ties like this. Some brainstorming might find a way through. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ H

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 3:49 AM, Tim Golden wrote: > On 04/08/2010 02:08, Steve Holden wrote: >> It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively >> large number of developers who have received MSDN licenses from >> Microsoft, none if us have the time to make s

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

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
, so having defined people to go to for help on strange platforms would be useful. Assuming, of course, that such people can be identified. I'm well aware that developers have limits on the time they can spend on Python. There's no blame here, just a wish to improve the process and ensure

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 11:00 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:48, Barry Warsaw <mailto:ba...@python.org>> wrote: > > On Aug 03, 2010, at 09:08 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > > >It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively >

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 11:00 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:48, Barry Warsaw <mailto:ba...@python.org>> wrote: > > On Aug 03, 2010, at 09:08 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > > >It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively >

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

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
't give people any confidence that the rules actually mean much, and I think ignoring the latter rule can negatively affect quality. Establishing comprehensive procedures can be as difficult as programming, though, and requires skills that have eluded me through a fairly lengthy technical ca

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

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
particular kind. People with programming skill would, >> understandably, rather invest their time in something they are good at. > > I think you are belittling the contributions of past and present > release managers. > I'd prefer to say I was displaying my igno

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

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 6:11 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 04.08.2010 19:56, schrieb Steve Holden: > >> This whole discussion seems to make it clear that the release manager >> procedures are still ill-defined in certain areas. > > If you mean to imply that a release manager shoul

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

2010-08-05 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/5/2010 2:19 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 05.08.2010 01:26, schrieb Barry Warsaw: >> On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:39 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> I'll see if I can get God to extend it for you. >> >> No need to involve the supernatural Steve! Just appro

Re: [Python-Dev] OT: PHB

2010-08-05 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/5/2010 8:12 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:49:31AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> I'd have thought a pre-requisite for being a PHB was having hair. > >Not at all, not at all - being a PHB is a style of thinking, not > hairdressing. ;) > I

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-07 Thread Steve Holden
tly motivated to integrate that build system into the distributions and maintain it. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Ho

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-07 Thread Steve Holden
e line. Microsoft's recent apparent reduction of support for dynamic languages represents a disturbing trend to me, though that is not directly related to the question raised by this thread. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US Septembe

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-09 Thread Steve Holden
published a patch to make distutils use the SDK compiler. It would make a lot of sense if it were built in to distutils as a further compiler choice. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ Se

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-09 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/9/2010 5:37 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 09.08.2010 23:00, schrieb Steve Holden: >> On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: >>>> Terry Reedy: >> [...] >>> >>> Python's distutils do not work with the SDK compiler, only Visual

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed tweaks to functools.wraps

2010-08-10 Thread Steve Holden
is that a decorator is always called with exactly one argument, and that if you want to write a parameterized decorator you therefore end up writing a function that returns a function that returns a function. I've scratched my head about how partials (or indeed anything else) could be used to

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed tweaks to functools.wraps

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Holden
the same iterable. But I suspect I am preaching to the choir here. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommu

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

2010-08-12 Thread Steve Holden
uld be stored in a single SQLite database (with a suitable API to hide the relational nature of the store). Then at least there would only be one file no matter how many versions of Python were installed. Seriously. We are already spending enough time doing stat calls on non-existent directorie

Re: [Python-Dev] Dev FAQ update request for svnmerge

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Holden
aint checkout. > > svnmerge merge -S /python/branches/release27-maint -r0002 > svn commit -F svnmerge-commit-message.txt # r0004 > > > regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ S

[Python-Dev] Shared Folders Under Vista

2010-08-22 Thread Steve Holden
e the folder is not shared. Can someone explain how to avoid the sharing in the first place? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden We

Re: [Python-Dev] Shared Folders Under Vista

2010-08-22 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/22/2010 10:10 PM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Steve Holden <mailto:st...@holdenweb.com>> wrote: >> Folders that I create with Cygwin using mkdir appear to be shared - sort >> of. They are denoted with the shared folder icon, and when I

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