Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1.2 / 2.6.5 maintenance releases?

2010-01-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 17, 2010, at 4:21 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Barry was once proposing time-based releases; this idea didn't really > catch on. I'm still a proponent of this, but it doesn't seem like there's enough support for it. > It's the release manager who decides when the next bug fix release wil

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: [..] > Will it also allow decompression of the said archive types? No but it would make sense having this one as well. Distribute/Setuptools' "unpack_archive" (used by easy_install) was implemented using the same principle as Distutils'

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On 1/17/2010 12:09 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is >> "archive_util". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they >> are zi

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Michael Foord wrote: [..] >> Are these functions portable? Do they rely on external programs? >> >> > > I believe that part of the work that Tarek has been doing has been to make > these distutils commands use the Python standard library and not depend on > externa

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Michael Foord
On 17/01/2010 20:04, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Tarek Ziadé gmail.com> writes: Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is "archive_util". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they are zip or tar files. I propose to move those useful functions into shutil, as this seems

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that >> can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For >> instance, "dir_util" and "file

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Tarek Ziadé gmail.com> writes: > > Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is > "archive_util". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they > are zip or tar files. I propose to move those useful functions into > shutil, as this seems the most logical place. Are these func

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that > can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For > instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x > era) are going away in fa

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Michael Foord
On 17/01/2010 19:51, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello, For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x era) are going away in favor of calls to shuti

[Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello, For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x era) are going away in favor of calls to shutil (and os), so the Distutils package gets

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1.2 / 2.6.5 maintenance releases?

2010-01-17 Thread Ned Deily
In article <4b53135a.7060...@gmail.com>, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Ned Deily acm.org> writes: > >> I've recently seen a couple of references to 3.1.2 go by in > >> checkins which made me wonder whether dates have been proposed yet > >> for updates to either 3.1 or 2.6. I d

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1.2 / 2.6.5 maintenance releases?

2010-01-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Ned Deily acm.org> writes: >> I've recently seen a couple of references to 3.1.2 go by in >> checkins which made me wonder whether dates have been proposed yet >> for updates to either 3.1 or 2.6. I don't recall seeing any and I >> didn't see any references in the PEPs. S

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1.2 / 2.6.5 maintenance releases?

2010-01-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Ned Deily acm.org> writes: > > I've recently seen a couple of references to 3.1.2 go by in checkins > which made me wonder whether dates have been proposed yet for updates to > either 3.1 or 2.6. I don't recall seeing any and I didn't see any > references in the PEPs. Some advance warning wo

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1.2 / 2.6.5 maintenance releases?

2010-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Ned Deily wrote: > I've recently seen a couple of references to 3.1.2 go by in checkins > which made me wonder whether dates have been proposed yet for updates to > either 3.1 or 2.6. I don't recall seeing any and I didn't see any > references in the PEPs. Some advance warning would be nice.