Re: [Python-Dev] libbzip2 version?

2006-03-11 Thread Georg Brandl
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Alan McIntyre wrote: >> The current PCBuild/readme.txt directs people to >> http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2 to get the 1.0.2 version of libbz2. The >> RedHat link redirects to http://www.bzip.org, which shows that 1.0.3 was >> released in February 2005. I suggest that Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Making builtins more efficient

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Elliott
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:46 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > Steven Elliott wrote: > > One way of handling it is to > > alter STORE_ATTR (op code for assigning to mod.str) to always check to > > see if the key being assigned is one of the default builtins. If it is, > > then the module's indexed array o

Re: [Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens?

2006-03-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jeremy Hylton wrote: >> Perhaps the solution >> is to require parens around all expressions, a simple consistent rule. > > I actually designed a language with that feature once. > It was an exercise in minimality, with har

Re: [Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot

2006-03-11 Thread Tim Peters
[Trent Mick] > I'm keen. However, it looks like Tim is most of the way there already: The first 100% clean (ignoring _ctypes warnings) Windows builbot test run just finished. Yippee! Setup is hellish, although you've already done the worst of it if you regularly build+test full Python on Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] libbzip2 version?

2006-03-11 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On bzip2, I wonder whether > 2.4 should also update to the newer library; +1, I seem to remember of exploits with corrupted data fed to the bz2 decompressor. Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] libbzip2 version?

2006-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Alan McIntyre wrote: > The current PCBuild/readme.txt directs people to > http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2 to get the 1.0.2 version of libbz2. The > RedHat link redirects to http://www.bzip.org, which shows that 1.0.3 was > released in February 2005. I suggest that Python 2.5 should move up to > 1

[Python-Dev] libbzip2 version?

2006-03-11 Thread Alan McIntyre
The current PCBuild/readme.txt directs people to http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2 to get the 1.0.2 version of libbz2. The RedHat link redirects to http://www.bzip.org, which shows that 1.0.3 was released in February 2005. I suggest that Python 2.5 should move up to 1.0.3, and that readme.txt shoul

Re: [Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot

2006-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Heller wrote: > Are there any estimates how much network traffic a buildbot would generate? It will need to download the entire source code twice (once for the trunk, and once for 2.4). After that, it currently does only svn up, on each commit. > And how must it be connected to the interne

Re: [Python-Dev] Developing/patching ctypes

2006-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Wouters wrote: > I suspect that some of those failures probably aren't ctypes failures, > but re-running-ctype-tests-in-the-same-process failures (like the very > first one) -- I get more errors when running -R:: than I do when running > the test verbosely directly. Maybe re-running the test

Re: [Python-Dev] Google ads on python.org?

2006-03-11 Thread Tim Parkin
Georg Brandl wrote: >Okay, if they were sensible, but: > >http://www.ph.tum.de/~gbrandl/python-vb.png > >Not that we want them to use Python... > >Georg > > > > It's a beta that Google have asked Python to roadtest. I'm hoping that the relevance level will increase soon though ... Tim Parkin

Re: [Python-Dev] Developing/patching ctypes

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 3/10/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Heller wrote:> BTW: The buildbot reports ctypes test failures on the gentoo amd64 machine:>> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/amd64%20gentoo%20trunk/builds/277/step-test/0 >> Is there a way to get the actual failures somehow?Th

[Python-Dev] Google ads on python.org?

2006-03-11 Thread Georg Brandl
Okay, if they were sensible, but: http://www.ph.tum.de/~gbrandl/python-vb.png Not that we want them to use Python... Georg ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 3/7/06, Ben Chelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Putting on my idealistic hat and remembering back my grad school days, Ithink we're on to something very new in the world of source codeanalysis. I really just want every developer to use source code analysiswhile they write code (remember, idealistic

Re: [Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot

2006-03-11 Thread Tim Peters
[Thomas Heller] > Are there any estimates how much network traffic a buildbot would generate? It should be trivial except for the initial checkout of the Python code base. > And how must it be connected to the internet - I assume it must be reachable > from the outside. The slave opens a socket

Re: [Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Heller
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Josiah Carlson told me had has given up getting a Windows > buildbot running, because every time he installed VS.NET > on his machine, the installation would immediately crash. > > So if anybody wants to contribute both a machine and time > to operate it (including the lik

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-11 Thread Ben Chelf
> The Coverty marketing droids need to be a bit less anal about getting > people to register at the website. IMHO, the technology should be Honestly, I laughed out loud when I read this. ;) So thanks for that. > > I'd also encourage Coventry to explain their business model a bit more > clearl

Re: [Python-Dev] Developing/patching ctypes

2006-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Trent Mick wrote: > I do this for ActivePython builds... by setting up the Platform SDK > compiler I want in the environment and then using: > > devenv.com .../pcbuild.sln /useenv /build Release Right - that might be the easiest thing to do. Regards, Martin __