Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 20/09/2009 02:31, Ryan Hill a écrit : If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. Let's drop it now. We've waited long enough. Portage with EAPI=2 has been stable for more than a year. Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
On Воскресенье 20 сентября 2009 11:47:30 Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 20/09/2009 02:31, Ryan Hill a écrit : If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. Let's drop it now. We've waited long enough. Portage with EAPI=2 has been stable for more than a year. Rémi Yes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Alex Alexander wrote: *On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 23:21, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what will break if it is surely? There seems to be a misunderstanding on what will happen if/when python 3 gets stabilized. The short

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Ryan Hill wrote: (Yes, this has EAPI in the title, so that means everyone will chime in) I'd like to clarify and (eventually) set in stone our ideas of best practices when it comes to bumping EAPI for system packages. I was of the belief that we had decided that system packages should

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:37:46 +0300 Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: (Yes, this has EAPI in the title, so that means everyone will chime in) I'd like to clarify and (eventually) set in stone our ideas of best practices when it comes to bumping EAPI for system

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Olivier Crête wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package I'm pretty sure this isn't the case - at least not as cleanly as you suggest. Certainly testing the ebuilds themselves is part of the reason for having ~arch, but upstream readiness is part of it as well. If a

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Ryan Hill wrote: So, should we always keep a working EAPI 0 version around? If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. You might want to define what you mean by dropping support for old EAPIs? Do you mean: 1. No longer ensuring that users who have pre-EAPI

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:28:40 -0400 Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I can see why package managers would benefit from fewer cases to support, however... Doesn't make any difference to package managers. Support for old EAPIs has to remain around indefinitely to uninstall things anyway.

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sunday 20 September 2009 13:28:40 Richard Freeman wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: So, should we always keep a working EAPI 0 version around? If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. You might want to define what you mean by dropping support for old EAPIs? Do you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote: What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used. Making it easily

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:17 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com wrote: 2009-09-19 20:22:49 Tobias Klausmann napisał(a): Hi! Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not switch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Francesco R
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: Someone here want people install paludis? because when I've switched to python 3.0 just out of curiosity, it broke totally that python written package manager who is portage. So another package manager was needed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:55:00 +1200, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: Stabilization of Python 3.1.* will be requested at the beginning of november. There was a suggestion to create a news item which would inform users that temporarily they shouldn't switch to Python 3 as their main

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Dale
Richard Freeman wrote: Olivier Crête wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package I'm pretty sure this isn't the case - at least not as cleanly as you suggest. Certainly testing the ebuilds themselves is part of the reason for having ~arch, but upstream readiness is part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho portage itself doesn't work with it? Sorry, this makes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Dale
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho portage itself

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:24:53 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote: ~arch is for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact that some other packages don't work with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 17:56:46 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Sunday 20 September 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact that some other packages don't work with Python 3. Of course they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Petteri Räty
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2009-09-20 16:44:09 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote: What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 18:51:53 Robert Buchholz napisał(a): On Sunday 20 September 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Some packages (whose older versions might be stable) might soon start requiring Python 3. Stabilization of these packages cannot be delayed due to the fact that some other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: which depend on Python 3) wouldn't break any packages and wouldn't require to switch main Python interpreter to Python 3. Package X (stable) requires python-2 Package Y (stable) requires python-3 =

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): # eselect python set 2 # emerge -s foo   File /usr/bin/emerge, line 41     except PermissionDenied, e:                            ^ SyntaxError:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 19:25:55 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: which depend on Python 3) wouldn't break any packages and wouldn't require to switch main Python interpreter to Python 3. Package X (stable)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Package X (stable) requires python-2 Package Y (stable) requires python-3 = User can't use both at the same time. Distribute/Setuptools will ensure that appropriate shebang is present in Python

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 19:30:54 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009-09-20 16:53:37 Jesús Guerrero napisał(a): # eselect python set 2 # emerge -s foo File /usr/bin/emerge, line 41 except

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 19:47:28 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Package X (stable) requires python-2 Package Y (stable) requires python-3 = User can't use both at the same time. Distribute/Setuptools

[gentoo-dev] perl-module.class review

2009-09-20 Thread Torsten Veller
Attached is a diff of the current and the prospective perl-module.class. Please review. Thanks. --- perl-module.eclass +++ perl-module.eclass @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation +# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General

[gentoo-dev] perl-5.10.1 status update

2009-09-20 Thread Torsten Veller
Many want it - very few help. That's perl-5.10 in Gentoo. I am trying to outline the changes in the perl-experimental overlay. And if there are no objections / better ideas, that will go into the tree. After that I'll minimize my perl work if no more people join to help. So these are the

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Alexey Shvetsov wrote: On Воскресенье 20 сентября 2009 11:47:30 Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 20/09/2009 02:31, Ryan Hill a écrit : If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. Let's drop it now. We've waited long enough. Portage with EAPI=2 has been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a difference between Python scripts and Python modules. Yes, I'm well aware of the difference between them. [snip] Python modules shouldn't have shebang. Python modules are intended to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-09-20 20:46:17 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a difference between Python scripts and Python modules. Yes, I'm well aware of the difference between them. [snip] Python modules

[gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-20 Thread Duncan
Sebastian Pipping posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:00:03 +0200 as excerpted: Duncan wrote: [L]et's get some context here. layman's no difficulty at all, really, when compared to the ordinary stuff we expect Gentoo users to do all the time. I think you forget about the learning curve: Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Zac Medico
Petteri Räty wrote: Every Gentoo system where world or system includes deps like =dev-lang/python-2.5 will get it installed because in this case Portage will automatically update to the latest slot at least according to my quick research. I don't like putting stuff to users systems that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Mark Loeser
Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org said: You mix it up. Portage works with python 3.1. If an user switches to python 3.1 as the main interpreter, it's possible that his own scripts won't work. Marking it stable sometine in november give's some time to ebuilds maintainers to fix their python

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Mark Loeser
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said: I agree. But Python 3.1 doesn't have more issues than Python 2.6, so the stabilization is reasonable. And how about all of the packages in the tree that use python? You are missing that huge part. That's like saying libfoo works

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Dale
Mark Loeser wrote: Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org said: You mix it up. Portage works with python 3.1. If an user switches to python 3.1 as the main interpreter, it's possible that his own scripts won't work. Marking it stable sometine in november give's some time to ebuilds

[gentoo-dev] A student hopes to learn more about the Gentoo Community and the Free/Open Source Software

2009-09-20 Thread Tiebing Shi
Dear friends, I have been reading your postings to the mailing lists of the Gentoo Community. I have really enjoyed reading about your collaborative creative activities and your perspectives on the free/open source software. My name is Tiebing Shi and I am a Ph.D. student at Queen's University

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 06:20:41PM -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org said: I agree. But Python 3.1 doesn't have more issues than Python 2.6, so the stabilization is reasonable. And how about all of the packages in the tree that use python?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-20 Thread Angelo Arrifano
Duncan wrote: Sebastian Pipping posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:00:03 +0200 as excerpted: Duncan wrote: [L]et's get some context here. layman's no difficulty at all, really, when compared to the ordinary stuff we expect Gentoo users to do all the time. I think you forget about the learning

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/optik

2009-09-20 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have masked dev-python/optik for removal in 30 days as it is bundled with =dev-lang/python-2.4 and only needed with (And, since Python 2.3, Optik is now part of the Python standard library, under the name optparse) Best regards,