Re: [Python-Dev] Should we drop active support of OSF/1?

2010-05-02 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 06:57, Jesus Cea wrote: > Would be enough to raise an "ERROR" at configure time if OSF test is > positive?. To delete that intentional "ERROR" would be trivial. Oh really? I have no clue of how to do that. Doesn't like like a good deprecation to me. :) Is printing a warning

Re: [Python-Dev] Should we drop active support of OSF/1?

2010-05-02 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/04/10 22:00, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> Maybe we can drop OSF/1 safely supporting Tru64 yet, but we don't have >> any buildbot running any of this systems... > > Dropping support is fine with me, in the long term. If PEP 11 is truly > followed,

Re: [Python-Dev] Frequency of the dev docs autobuild

2010-05-02 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 02.05.2010 22:21, schrieb R. David Murray: > On Sun, 02 May 2010 00:44:22 +0200, > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= wrote: >> R. David Murray wrote: >> > On Sat, 01 May 2010 16:18:19 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >> >> On 1 May 2010 15:28, R. David Murray wrote: >> >>> Unless I'm missin

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-05-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 02:00, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Guido van Rossum > wrote: > [..] > >>> > >>> Without a BDFL, I think we need a committee to make decisions, e.g. by > >>> majority vote amongst committers. > >> > >> Couldn't we just go with the FLUFL? > > > > I

Re: [Python-Dev] Frequency of the dev docs autobuild

2010-05-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I wasn't asking for more precision than daily (I just hadn't seen it), but > now that I think about it it would indeed be nice to know when the cron > job starts, so that we know that if the checkin didn't happen before then, > it won't show up in the online docs until the next day. I don't thin

Re: [Python-Dev] Frequency of the dev docs autobuild

2010-05-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 02 May 2010 00:44:22 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= wrote: > R. David Murray wrote: > > On Sat, 01 May 2010 16:18:19 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 1 May 2010 15:28, R. David Murray wrote: > >>> Unless I'm missing something, I don't see any docs there about the > >>

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-05-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 02 May 2010 22:39:01 +1000, Yaniv Aknin wrote: > >> Yes, in the last year in particular there has been some excellent effort > >> of maintaining the issue tracker content. But the question still remains > >> - who are we worried about offending? > > > The people who are potential new cont

Re: [Python-Dev] Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils

2010-05-02 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Olemis Lang wrote: > Hello ! > > Often I have the contents to be written in a file at a given path that > I know as well. I recently tried to find a function in stdlib to do > that and to my surprise this is what I found : > >  - Such function exists >  - It's `dist

[Python-Dev] Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils

2010-05-02 Thread Olemis Lang
Hello ! Often I have the contents to be written in a file at a given path that I know as well. I recently tried to find a function in stdlib to do that and to my surprise this is what I found : - Such function exists - It's `distutils.file_util.write_file` IMO the last place where people'd l

[Python-Dev] PEP or issue recording rationale for allowing multiple context managers?

2010-05-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
I was looking for a reference for the addition of multiple context manager support to with statements in 3.1 and 2.7 and came up empty (aside from the initial python-ideas thread [1] that I linked to from PEP 377). I was hoping to find something that clearly spelled out: - the two major flaws in c

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-05-02 Thread Yaniv Aknin
>> Yes, in the last year in particular there has been some excellent effort >> of maintaining the issue tracker content. But the question still remains >> - who are we worried about offending? > The people who are potential new contributors but don't currently know > anyone in the Python community

Re: [Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

2010-05-02 Thread Brian Quinlan
I've updated the PEP to include: - completion callbacks (for interoperability with Twisted Deferreds) - a pointer to the discussion on stdlig-sig See: http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-3148.txt?r1=78618&r2=80679 Rejected ideas: - Having a registration system for executors Not yet addres