Re: Please wait before bloating Debian with python2- packages

2001-01-22 Thread Chris Lawrence
-- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager (Physics Astronomy, 125 Lewis, 662-915-5765) Instructor, POL 101 (Political Science, 208 Deupree, 662-915-5949)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#101165: reportbug fails to install]

2001-06-16 Thread Chris Lawrence
Anyone have a clue what might cause this? I'm stumped. Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ ---BeginMessage--- Package: reportbug Version: 1.17 Whenever I try to install reportbug I get the following: Setting up reportbug (1.17) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
all of the important issues though. It may be needlessly complex, but it does support users having whatever Pythons they want installed and should allow most things to work. Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Chris Lawrence
binary (does freeze need this?), but it adds overhead to every invocation. I have nothing invested one way or the other, mind you. Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Doctoral Student, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
to see how this might work in practice... Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Doctoral Student, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
short, simple, and to the point. The only downside is you won't automatically get new .pyc and .pyo files every time you install a new major version (in which case it might be nicer to go with something like a register/unregister system... YMMV). Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: Final draft of Python Policy (hopefully ;-)

2001-10-28 Thread Chris Lawrence
of section 2... it would make the rest of the section more understandable. - (editorial nit) There seems to be a superfluous in the rationale. Anyway, feel free to rip away... Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/

Re: what to do about python-kjbuckets

2001-11-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
mainly waiting on python-gnome to get updated... It will run without kjbuckets at all, but there's about a 15% performance penalty under Python 1.5. Dunno about 2.x... Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/

python-gnome: float weirdness with gnome.ui is back

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
-- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765

Re: Python and Emacs

2002-05-21 Thread Chris Lawrence
tabify Of course, we all know that using tabs in Python code is Evil. :-) Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#148415: jack: should use #!/usr/bin/python

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jun 23, Michael Banck wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:22:32PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: Some users may have a local version of Python installed (like Python from CVS), so jack should use the path to the default Debian version of Python rather than using /usr/bin/env

Re: python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Lawrence
be dropped until sarge+1; keeping around the previous default Python in the next release is probably a good idea as general policy. I also wouldn't bother switching to 2.2 as the default if 2.3 is going to be the default by December. Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: standard Python build for Debian distributions

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Aug 14, Damon Fasching wrote: Are there any plans to include packages like distutils in the standard Debian distribution? distutils is in the python-dev package; there are other python-* packages with various other components of the batteries included Python distribution. Chris -- Chris

Re: Maintaining Python 1.5

2002-09-10 Thread Chris Lawrence
agree we shouldn't keep it around forever, but it seems like as long as people are using python1.5 with post-woody we should keep it. Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall

[rene@debian.org: Bug#165356: reportbug creates snow mail text]

2002-10-18 Thread Chris Lawrence
For the third time, *I THOUGHT PYTHON 2.2 WAS FEATURE-FROZEN*. This email module crap is ridiculous... Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall - 662-915-5765

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Lawrence
to target 2.2.x as our default version. This is something that largely depends on our anticipated release schedule - which is not very calendar driven, but Q2 2003 is less likely to make sarge than Q4 2002. (Note that debian-python is probably the most appropriate list for followups.) Chris -- Chris