Re: [Python-Dev] removing aclocal.m4

2004-12-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Neal Norwitz wrote: Can we remove aclocal.m4? The last log message states: fix for bug #811160 - autoconf vs. hp/ux system header files. also applied to release23-maint. Note that aclocal.m4 can go away when autoconf 2.58 is out. It appears to me that 2.59 indeed fixes the

[Python-Dev] Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-11 Thread Fredrik Lundh
One thing that bugs me: the article says 3 or 4 times that Python is slow, each time with a refutation (but it's so flexible, but it's fast enough) but still, they sure seem to harp on the point. fwiw, IDG's Computer Sweden, sweden's leading IT-newspaper has a surprisingly big Python article

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-11 Thread Martijn Faassen
Fredrik Lundh wrote: [snip] fwiw, IDG's Computer Sweden, sweden's leading IT-newspaper has a surprisingly big Python article in their most recent issue: PYTHON FEELS WELL Better performance biggest news in 2.4 [snip] Perhaps the message getting out is actually that Python's performance is

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-11 Thread Guido van Rossum
fwiw, IDG's Computer Sweden, sweden's leading IT-newspaper has a surprisingly big Python article in their most recent issue: PYTHON FEELS WELL Better performance biggest news in 2.4 and briefly interviews swedish zope-developer Johan Carlsson and Python- Ware co-founder Håkan