On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:55 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > So I'd encourage everybody to keep asking questions, and request that > they are answered in a polite manner, even if the one answering thinks > that the same question is already answered in some documentation.
Thanks. I have some basic questions. > The only alternative is that some people just give up contributing > to Python. I was about to do just that. :-) Now I've decided to take the plunge instead. I made a test change to the 2.5 README and merged it into 2.6 and 2.7. Then I pushed. It *seems* to have worked, but I also got some traceback: hg push pushing to ssh://h...@hg.python.org/cpython searching for changes remote: adding changesets remote: adding manifests remote: adding file changes remote: added 6 changesets with 6 changes to 1 files remote: change(s) NOT sent, something went wrong: remote: [Failure instance: Traceback from remote host -- Traceback (most recent call last): remote: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/spread/banana.py", line 153, in gotItem remote: self.callExpressionReceived(item) remote: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/spread/banana.py", line 116, in callExpressionReceived remote: self.expressionReceived(obj) remote: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/spread/pb.py", line 514, in expressionReceived remote: method(*sexp[1:]) remote: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/spread/pb.py", line 826, in proto_message remote: self._recvMessage(self.localObjectForID, requestID, objectID, message, answerRequired, netArgs, netKw) remote: --- <exception caught here> --- remote: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/spread/pb.py", line 840, in _recvMessage remote: netResult = object.remoteMessageReceived(self, message, netArgs, netKw) remote: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/spread/pb.py", line 225, in perspectiveMessageReceived remote: state = method(*args, **kw) remote: File "/data/buildbot/master/master.cfg", line 87, in perspective_addChange remote: changedict['category'] = branch_to_category[changedict['branch']] remote: exceptions.KeyError: '2.5' remote: ] remote: notified python-check...@python.org of incoming changeset 3074c77b7121 remote: notified python-check...@python.org of incoming changeset cf5e4bdb24a1 remote: notified python-check...@python.org of incoming changeset 89007356798b remote: notified python-check...@python.org of incoming changeset cc959f114739 remote: notified python-check...@python.org of incoming changeset 69650b81f4b9 remote: notified python-check...@python.org of incoming changeset 5ae4f3bbaebe I also have trouble building the 2.5 branch on OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) with Xcode 3.2 -- this is gcc 4.2.1. I think I'll just give up on that part though, it's probably just too old, and 2.7 builds just fine. > I just hope that we can stick with Mercurial for more than five years, > before the next hot thing comes along. +1. Just as I hope for the Python 3-4 transition, I hope that whatever comes along next has a better transition strategy. That would make it really hot. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
