Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-02 Thread Nicolas Lehuen
is the need to provide an interpreter name, which complicates things a little bit in the case of the test suite. Then again, the only thing which prevents Python 2.2 support right now is the use of enumerate(), so we could just check whether we could do without enumerate() and support

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel J. Popowich
Jim Gallacher writes: Daniel J. Popowich wrote: Regardless, I do not think it is within the scope of mod_python developers to keep users forward-compatible with the underlying python version. Sorry, but IMHO, this is not scalable software engineering. I'll re-read this paragraph after

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Graham Dumpleton
Again this is a resend. I post one message via my secure SMTP and it vanishes. Post one via normal SMTP and it goes to list straight away. This sort of confirms what I suspected which is that my ISPs secure SMTP is busted somehow in that randomly drops email. :-( Sorry for the duplicate if first

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Gallacher
to that if they really wanted to make 3.2.6 work with that version of Python. :-( I think it may have been a mistake to drop python 2.2 support just yet. Aren't some RHAT enterprise systems still stuck at that python version? I suspect we won't see this issue raised until *after* mp 3.2

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel J. Popowich
Nicolas Lehuen writes: I've just checked in some changes to the Python source code in order to support Python 2.2. Now the test suite runs successfully on Python 2.2.3 on Windows 2000. I've checked that no regressions were introduced in later Python versions, too. The changes are pretty

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Nicolas Lehuen
Quick response, because it's 4:36 AM here, I just woke up to feed my daughter and took all this flak, but I need to sleep :). I guess that's the problem of having a round-the-planet development team, between those in America, Europe, Asia and Australia (nobody from Antarctica yet ?) Graham :

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Gallacher
Daniel J. Popowich wrote: Nicolas Lehuen writes: I've just checked in some changes to the Python source code in order to support Python 2.2. Now the test suite runs successfully on Python 2.2.3 on Windows 2000. I've checked that no regressions were introduced in later Python versions, too.

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Nicolas Lehuen
2006/2/2, Jim Gallacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a formal decision was made, then it's a done deal, right? If not and uses of 2.3 have slipped in then perhaps it's a done deal anyway because no one can stomach the thought of taking out the 2.3-isms at this late date. My impression is that

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Nicolas Lehuen
OK, I've reverted my changes. I left python22.py in place, because I still hope to be able to use it with PythonImport. The only problem is being able to define it in the unit tests. Regards, Nicolas 2006/2/2, Nicolas Lehuen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/2/2, Jim Gallacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a

Re: Python 2.2 support

2006-02-01 Thread Nicolas Lehuen
to provide an interpreter name, which complicates things a little bit in the case of the test suite. Then again, the only thing which prevents Python 2.2 support right now is the use of enumerate(), so we could just check whether we could do without enumerate() and support Python 2.2 out of the box