Re: Skip Python 2.6 and use 2.7 as default in Squeeze?

2010-04-20 Thread Eike Nicklas
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:46:48 -0500 Kumar Appaiah wrote: But it would be nice to see Python 2.7 in Debian soon. :-) It's available in experimental (not the latest beta, though). But indeed it would be great to have the 2.6-2.7 transition started a little earlier than the 2.5-2.6 one :-)

Re: Is it worth back porting PEP 3147 to Python 3.2?

2010-04-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Omer Zak, 2010-04-20] My take of the situation: Yes, please backport PEP 3147 to at least Python 2.7. The rationale: we'll need to support both Python 2.x and Python 3.x for several years, and it will be nice if the same library package can be made to support both 2.x and 3.x. you cannot

Re: ITP: nltk -- A suite of Python libraries for natural language processing

2010-04-20 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:48 -0300, Luciano Bello wrote: El Jue 08 Abr 2010, Luciano Bello escribió: El Mié 07 Abr 2010, C.J. Adams-Collier escribió: It is already being worked on. The package is being hosted on alioth and seems to build for me. I don't know what is keeping it from being

Re: ITP: nltk -- A suite of Python libraries for natural language processing

2010-04-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* C.J. Adams-Collier c...@colliertech.org, 2010-04-20, 09:02: It is already being worked on. The package is being hosted on alioth and seems to build for me. I don't know what is keeping it from being rfs'd. Maybe robin knows? are you talking about Robin Munn? I'm not sure if he can sponsor

Re: Is it worth back porting PEP 3147 to Python 3.2?

2010-04-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Omer Zak, 2010-04-20] My take of the situation: Yes, please backport PEP 3147 to at least Python 2.7. The rationale: we'll need to support both Python 2.x and Python 3.x for several years, and it will be nice if the same library package

Re: Is it worth back porting PEP 3147 to Python 3.2?

2010-04-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 15:39 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Apr 20, 2010, at 06:50 AM, Omer Zak wrote: My take of the situation: Yes, please backport PEP 3147 to at least Python 2.7. The rationale: we'll need to support both Python 2.x and Python 3.x for several years, and it will be nice if

Re: Is it worth back porting PEP 3147 to Python 3.2?

2010-04-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, April 19, 2010 05:53:05 pm Barry Warsaw wrote: Apologies for the cross-post, but I want to make sure that everyone who cares about Python on both Debian and Ubuntu gets a chance to weigh in. On Friday, Guido approved and I landed the implementation of PEP 3147 on the py3k trunk

Re: Is it worth back porting PEP 3147 to Python 3.2?

2010-04-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Barry Warsaw, 2010-04-20] On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Omer Zak, 2010-04-20] My take of the situation: Yes, please backport PEP 3147 to at least Python 2.7. The rationale: we'll need to support both Python 2.x and Python 3.x for several years, and it will be

Re: Is it worth back porting PEP 3147 to Python 3.2?

2010-04-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Barry Warsaw, 2010-04-20] If 10.10 includes only Python 2.7, then sure, we'll only back port to that version. why do you want to backport it to 2.X for a single python2.x package? -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc

Re: python 2.6 deb for lenny ?

2010-04-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/01/2010 10:27 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: I'm sorry to say that I forgot to upload my semi-broken attempts - just fixed it - maybe they still provide a useful starting point: http://people.debian.org/~toni/python2.6/ Please send feedback my way! I think Fabio (kob...@d.o) also wanted

Re: Python Packaging Guide

2010-04-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Umang Varma umang...@gmail.com, 2010-04-18, 08:30: My general impression is that it's yet another (very) bad piece of documentation. Feel free to ignore my opinion however, as I'm already prejudiced. :P It's hard to ignore your opinion (or for that matter, that of any DD here). When you say

Re: Python Packaging Guide

2010-04-20 Thread Umang Varma
On 21/04/10 05:01, Jakub Wilk wrote: Who is your target audience? If you want this document to be read by packaging newbies, then this document is terribly incomplete. That, I believe, would be because of my very limited knowledge in the field. Although I may not have explicitly said this

Re: python 2.6 deb for lenny ?

2010-04-20 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
* 2010-04-21 01:17, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: I think Fabio (kob...@d.o) also wanted to / is working on a backport, might make sense to co-maintain that with him. CCed him :) I'm definitely interested in co-maintaining the backport (and using my own backport in production already). I'll have a look