Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-17 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Il gio, 2004-06-17 alle 03:26, Donovan Baarda ha scritto: From looking at it, the main thing we'd loose by dropping python2.1 is jython. Anyone using it? Looking at http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst seems there is enough people that use it... I've looked also on http://www.jython.org, they say:

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-16 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Il mer, 2004-06-16 alle 04:03, Donovan Baarda ha scritto: There are various reasons why you might need a non-current Python package. Typically it is for a legacy Python application that has not yet been upgraded. Now I understand your point of view... So we have to try to complete the python

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-16 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:56:53 +1000 Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 13:52, Terry Hancock wrote: [...] Zope =2.6 needs Python 2.1.3, while Zope 2.7 and X3.0.0 both use Python 2.3.4 as standard (i.e. the newest Python). Zope 2.6 *can* run with Python 2.2 (and

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-16 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:27, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Il mer, 2004-06-16 alle 04:03, Donovan Baarda ha scritto: [...] Policy? What I missed? I tried to find a Debian Python policy, but I didn't have enough luck. It is not listed on http://www.debian.org/devel/ like the perl policy or the java

Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hi! I'm not (yet) an official dd, but I started my applicant process some weeks ago so I hope I'll be a DD soon. I'm interested in adopting python-gd (my package is available on http://www.kobold.it/python-gd). Actually there is only a whishlist bug for this package (#223580) which ask for a

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mar 15/06/2004 à 09:49, Fabio Tranchitella a écrit : Hi! I'm not (yet) an official dd, but I started my applicant process some weeks ago so I hope I'll be a DD soon. I'm interested in adopting python-gd (my package is available on http://www.kobold.it/python-gd). Actually there is only a

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Seo Sanghyeon
Fabio Tranchitella wrote: I'm interested in adopting python-gd (my package is available on http://www.kobold.it/python-gd). Actually there is only a whishlist bug for this package (#223580) which ask for a versioned packaging for the module. Actually it is available only for python2.3, but

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Cory Dodt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is an implicit assumption here that python modules will actually work for all versions of Python. This is clearly not the case; some will use features only available in (some newer version X.y). Furthermore, at least a few (distutils and

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Il mar, 2004-06-15 alle 17:13, Cory Dodt ha scritto: There is an implicit assumption here that python modules will actually work for all versions of Python. This is clearly not the case; some will use features only available in (some newer version X.y). Furthermore, at least a few (distutils

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:09 pm, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: I know the number of packages in Debian is becoming a problem, simply I don't uderstand why python2.1 (and a lot of modules for python2.1) are available in testing (which will be stable soon) if it is an old version and two major

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mar 15/06/2004 à 19:09, Fabio Tranchitella a écrit : In stable there is a python-slang compiled for python2.1, in testing and unstable there is a python-slang compiled for python2.3... What about python2.2? If I apt-get python2.2, why I can't use slang? Why would you want to use python2.2?

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:08, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mar 15/06/2004 à 19:09, Fabio Tranchitella a écrit : In stable there is a python-slang compiled for python2.1, in testing and unstable there is a python-slang compiled for python2.3... What about python2.2? If I apt-get python2.2, why

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:03 pm, Donovan Baarda wrote: Even now, there are still several applications, including Zope, still running on python2.2, when the default is python2.3 and has been for some time. I don't think so: Zope =2.6 needs Python 2.1.3, while Zope 2.7 and X3.0.0 both use

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 13:52, Terry Hancock wrote: [...] Zope =2.6 needs Python 2.1.3, while Zope 2.7 and X3.0.0 both use Python 2.3.4 as standard (i.e. the newest Python). Zope 2.6 *can* run with Python 2.2 (and I think it may be the only version for which that's true), but it is not