Re: [Python-Dev] Possible platforms to drop in 2.6

2006-12-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:19, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Of course, if the project management decide that even the EMX > support should be removed from the official tree - so be it; I > will just have to maintain the port outside the official tree. I feel that so long as there's an active maint

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-12-23 Thread Tony Nelson
At 8:42 PM +0100 12/2/06, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Jan Claeys schrieb: >> Like I said, it's possible to split Python without making things >> complicated for newbies. > >You may have that said, but I don't believe its truth. For example, >most distributions won't include Tkinter in the "standard" Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Non-blocking (asynchronous) timer without thread?

2006-12-23 Thread Josiah Carlson
Evgeniy Khramtsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Klaas пишет: > > > I'm not sure how having python execute code at an arbitrary time would > > _reduce_ race conditions and/or deadlocks. And if you want to make it > > safe by executing code that shares no variables or resources, then it >

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible platforms to drop in 2.6

2006-12-23 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 12/23/06, Andrew MacIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, if the project management decide that even the EMX support > should be removed from the official tree - so be it; I will just have > to maintain the port outside the official tree. I don't think that's the objective. In general

Re: [Python-Dev] Non-blocking (asynchronous) timer without thread?

2006-12-23 Thread tomer filiba
> The main goal is to prevent threads overhead and problems with race > conditions and deadlocks. check out stackless python -- http://www.stackless.com/ -tomer ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible platforms to drop in 2.6

2006-12-23 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brett> So, here are the platforms I figured we should drop: > > ... > Brett> * OS/2 > > I'm pretty sure Andrew MacIntyre is still maintaining the OS/2+EMX port: > > http://members.pcug.org.au/~andymac/python.html I am, although I haven't managed a bina