[Python-Dev] Progress on switching Windows build to Berkeley DB 4.7.25...

2008-06-17 Thread Trent Nelson
Hi all, Jesus, apologies that this has taken so long for me to get back to, I've been completely and utterly swamped with client work the past few weeks. However, thanks to a couple of hours spare at Detroit airport yesterday, I was finally able to make some progress on updating the Windows Be

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Merging changes before beta

2008-06-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: I am in the process of merging changes from trunk to the py3k branch. (If somebody else is already doing it, please tell me quickly!) BTW, I will be hanging out on #python-dev @ freenode fro

[Python-Dev] Merging changes before beta

2008-06-17 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Hello, I am in the process of merging changes from trunk to the py3k branch. (If somebody else is already doing it, please tell me quickly!) IMO it would be better to have the beta versions in sync; the 2.6->3.0 migration should not be a regression! I will integrate the changes that are either s

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> There's no real urgency. The reason this came up is

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Curt Hagenlocher
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> There's no real urgency. The reason this came up is because I just >> implemented zlib, which automatically enabled the gzip unit test

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't *feel* anxious, but my doctor *has* been trying to persuade me > to switch to decaf... > > There's no real urgency. The reason this came up is because I just > implemented zlib, which automatically enabled the

[Python-Dev] Error building python3.0 under OS X

2008-06-17 Thread Brad Miller
I have been updating the 3.0 source using bzr and after my latest bzr pull I get an error on make install. I'm running 10.5.3. ./configure --enable-framework make make install ... running install_egg_info Writing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/lib-dynload/Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Curt Hagenlocher
I don't *feel* anxious, but my doctor *has* been trying to persuade me to switch to decaf... There's no real urgency. The reason this came up is because I just implemented zlib, which automatically enabled the gzip unit tests. The gzip tests are failing because the current timestamp can't be writ

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Forest
ISTR using a Microsoft C compiler in the early/mid 1990s whose runtime library used an unusual epoch. I don't recall any others straying from the Unix way, but then again, I haven't been looking for such quirks. Guido wrote: > > ISTR that we force the epoch to be 1970 on all major platforms -- or

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISTR that we force the epoch to be 1970 on all major platforms -- or > perhaps it happens to be 1970 even on Windows when using MS's C > runtime. I can confirm that Python under Windows does indeed use the Unix epoch:

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
Can you explain why you are so anxious to get this resolved (apart from the beer :-) ? On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance of an Official Pronouncement on this topic? It would help > us greatly -- even if only to figure out who'll be paying fo

Re: [Python-Dev] Blow your mind

2008-06-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/16 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> A colleague just forward this to me and it blew my fscking mind to >> smithereens. It also brings back a lot of memories. Enjoy! > > Wow! > > One thing that surprised me was tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Epoch and Platform

2008-06-17 Thread Curt Hagenlocher
Any chance of an Official Pronouncement on this topic? It would help us greatly -- even if only to figure out who'll be paying for the next round of beer. On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISTR that we force the epoch to be 1970 on all major platforms

Re: [Python-Dev] Blow your mind

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Moore
2008/6/16 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A colleague just forward this to me and it blew my fscking mind to > smithereens. It also brings back a lot of memories. Enjoy! Wow! One thing that surprised me was that I never saw Tim appear... Paul. ___

[Python-Dev] Error building 3.0 on OS-X

2008-06-17 Thread Brad Miller
I have been updating the 3.0 source using bzr and after my latest bzr pull I get an error on make install. I'm running 10.5.3. ./configure --enable-framework make make install ... running install_egg_info Writing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/lib-dynload/Pyt