[Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-04 Thread Brian Warner
Currently, branches are not supported, because buildbot is somewhat limited. When I get a solution for this problem, I plan to have all buildbots build both the trunk and the 2.4 branch; such builds would only be initiated whenever something is committed on the branch. Branch support

Re: [Python-Dev] slight inconsistency in svn checkin email subject lines

2006-01-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Walter Dörwald wrote: And while we're at it, could you remove the commit of too? IMHO it just obscures the real content of the subject. Done. FYI, the rationale for this prefix was that post-commit distinguishes between commit and revprop, where revprop would indicate that properties changed,

[Python-Dev] file.next() vs. file.readline()

2006-01-04 Thread Thomas Wouters
Twice now, I've been bitten by the 'mixing file-iteration with readline' issue. (Yeah, twice.. Good thing I don't write anything important in Python ;) I've also seen a number of newbies bitten by the same thing. The issue, for those that aren't aware, is that when mixing file-iteration and

Re: [Python-Dev] file.next() vs. file.readline()

2006-01-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
I'd say go right ahead and submit a change to SF (and then after it's reviewed you can check it in yourself :-). The only reason I can think of why this isn't done yet would be that nobody thought of it. Of course there are other ill-advised combinations, like write followed by read for which

[Python-Dev] Sharing between multiple interpreters and restricted mode

2006-01-04 Thread Gabriel Becedillas
Hi, At the company I work for we've embedded Python 2.4.1 in a C++ application. We execute multiple scripts concurrenlty, each one in its own interpreter (created using Py_NewInterpreter()). We are sharing a certain instance between interpreters because its to expensive to instantiate that class

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-04 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 4-jan-2006, at 0:51, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Jan 3, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Bob Ippolito wrote: Who's going to bother? It violates PEP 7, unless you argue that OS X/gcc is not a major compiler. Clearly, but that still doesn't answer the question of who's going to do

[Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-04 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball with Sparc Solaris 9's tar: tar: directory checksum error With GNU tar, it worked correctly. Is this a known issue, or is it irrelevant? Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly

Re: [Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-04 Thread Tim Peters
[Reinhold Birkenfeld] Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball with Sparc Solaris 9's tar: tar: directory checksum error With GNU tar, it worked correctly. Is this a known issue, or is it irrelevant? It's a known

Re: [Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-04 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Tim Peters wrote: [Reinhold Birkenfeld] Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball with Sparc Solaris 9's tar: tar: directory checksum error With GNU tar, it worked correctly. Is this a known issue, or is it irrelevant?

Re: [Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:01 +0100, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball with Sparc Solaris 9's tar: tar: directory checksum error With GNU tar, it worked correctly. Is this a known

[Python-Dev] buildno (Was: [Python-checkins] commit of r41907- python/trunk/Makefile.pre.in)

2006-01-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Barry Warsaw wrote: Unfortunately, /usr/bin/type doesn't seem to accept the -t flag for me on Solaris 9. Okay, so what's the best (read: portable) way to do this? The portable way would be to check for svnversion in configure, and then only use it if it was found. You could also check for .svn

Re: [Python-Dev] Real time behaviour of Pythons memory management; WAS: RE: Documentation about Python's GC,python-dev list messages referenced in Modules/gcmodule.c notreachable anymore

2006-01-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Weber, Gregoire wrote: Questions - Notice that this article is not appropriate for python-dev. If you ask is it the case that Python behaves such and such?, you have a python-list (comp.lang.python) question. For python-dev, the question should be formulated as because it is such and

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-04 Thread Trent Mick
[Brian Warner wrote] ... The only lingering issues are with status delivery: the main HTML Waterfall HTML will interleave builds of both branches on the same page, which could be a bit confusing (if the top line is red, does that mean the trunk is broken, or the 2.4 branch?). Or for separate

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-04 Thread Trent Mick
[Trent Mick wrote] Or for separate logic projects being built with the same builtbot s/logic/logical/ Trent -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-04 Thread skip
Ronald This should do it, although I haven't tested this on OSX 10.3: Not quite. On my 10.3 system MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_N for N in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 is defined. However, MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED is defined to be MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_3. This works for me (compiles with no warnings, passes

Re: [Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:23, Barry Warsaw wrote: Dunno, but I'm always having problems w/ Solaris tar, so I just use GNU tar on Solaris. ;) Maybe we should switch to cpio-based distributions? Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list