Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-12 Thread Larry Hastings
On 01/08/2014 02:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Agreed with Nick here. Let's just add a third beta for the clinic churn. Just to be clear: I plan to add a third beta, and have a proposed schedule. I haven't posted it yet because I'm waiting to hear back from the rest of the crew that the

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 08.01.2014 03:23, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 8 Jan 2014 08:44, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 7:33 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: A PyPI module is not so great because you'll have to change every formatting

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 Jan 2014 17:06, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Am 08.01.2014 03:23, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 8 Jan 2014 08:44, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 7:33 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: A PyPI module

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On mer., 2014-01-08 at 12:06 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: I'm saying hacking in a complex change in a few weeks when there isn't consensus even on the basics of the design just because a few moderately high profile developers failed to understand what 5 years to be the default choice for new

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On mer., 2014-01-08 at 12:06 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: I'm saying hacking in a complex change in a few weeks when there isn't consensus even on the basics of the design just because a few moderately high profile

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 08, 2014, at 05:39 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: I suspect a 6 month cycle would confuse users and inconvenience redistributors, but a 12—17 month cycle so 3.5 is published before 2.7 enters security fix only mode would make a *lot* of sense. 18 months is already the typical development cycle

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 08.01.2014 11:08, schrieb Nick Coghlan: On 8 Jan 2014 17:06, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net mailto:g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Am 08.01.2014 03:23, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 8 Jan 2014 08:44, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 9 Jan 2014 02:34, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Am 08.01.2014 11:08, schrieb Nick Coghlan: On 8 Jan 2014 17:06, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net mailto: g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Am 08.01.2014 03:23, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan

[python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Eli Bendersky
Hello, Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems that the whole implementation is being reconsidered (Antoine's email to pydev). This doesn't look like something we should be doing so late in

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Victor Stinner
2014/1/7 Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com: Are we really that much in need of convert-to-clinic *now*? Why not creating the 3.4 branch after the beta1 and develop Python 3.5 in default during the stabilisation process of Python 3.4? It's like many other softwares are developed. Only bugfixes

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@gmail.comwrote: 2014/1/7 Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com: Are we really that much in need of convert-to-clinic *now*? Why not creating the 3.4 branch after the beta1 and develop Python 3.5 in default during the stabilisation

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems that the whole implementation is being reconsidered (Antoine's email

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On mar., 2014-01-07 at 13:18 -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: Hello, Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems that the whole implementation is being reconsidered (Antoine's email to pydev).

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Łukasz Langa
On Jan 7, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On mar., 2014-01-07 at 13:18 -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: Hello, Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems that the

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
вівторок, 07-січ-2014 13:42:29 Łukasz Langa написано: Let me play the devil’s advocate here: how much do we risk in future maintainability costs if we move to Argument Clinic in Python 3.5 and leave large parts of Python 3.4 uncovered by it? I mean that we can get some ugly diffs between

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On mar., 2014-01-07 at 13:18 -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: Hello, Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 Jan 2014 07:11, A.M. Kuchling a...@amk.ca wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:37:22PM -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: Just to be clear, this is exactly what I mean. I'm not saying AC is not worth it; I'm questioning the timing. Agreed; let's try to avoid far-ranging sets of changes so late

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org wrote: On 01/07/2014 03:10 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:37:22PM -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: Just to be clear, this is exactly what I mean. I'm not saying AC is not worth it; I'm questioning the

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 Jan 2014 08:44, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 7:33 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: A PyPI module is not so great because you'll have to change every formatting operation to use a function from a module rather than the % operator or the format method. I think this

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 8 Jan 2014 08:44, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 7:33 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: A PyPI module is not so great because you'll have to change every formatting operation to use a function from a module rather

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Larry Hastings
On 01/07/2014 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Addressing the key remaining barriers to migration for existing Python 2 users would be an excellent objective to attain before we end upstream support for Python 2.7, but it's one that would be better addressed by a slightly shorter dev cycle than

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/7/2014 9:35 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: On 01/07/2014 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Addressing the key remaining barriers to migration for existing Python 2 users would be an excellent objective to attain before we end upstream support for Python 2.7, but it's one that would be better

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 Jan 2014 10:36, Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org wrote: On 01/07/2014 06:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Addressing the key remaining barriers to migration for existing Python 2 users would be an excellent objective to attain before we end upstream support for Python 2.7, but it's one that