Re: [Python-Dev] Thank yous

2010-07-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.07.2010 22:45, schrieb Jesse Noller: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >>> On 4 July 2010 17:02, Benjamin Peterson wrote: Now that Python 2.7 is out, I'd like to thank a few of the people who made it possible

Re: [Python-Dev] Thank yous

2010-07-04 Thread Jesse Noller
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >> On 4 July 2010 17:02, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> Now that Python 2.7 is out, I'd like to thank a few of the people who >>> made it possible: >> >> And not forgetting Benjamin himself for m

Re: [Python-Dev] More detailed build instructions for Windows

2010-07-04 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 15:40, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 03.07.2010 16:34, schrieb Christian Heimes: >> Am 03.07.2010 09:00, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": I'm trying to test out a patch to add a timeout in subprocess.py on Windows, so I need to build Python with Visual Studio.  The docs

Re: [Python-Dev] blocking 2.7

2010-07-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/4/2010 2:31 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: But Python tests lack coverage stats, so it is hard to say anything. FYI: http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ Turns out the audioop is one of the best covered modules, at 98% -- Terry Jan Reedy ___ Python-Dev m

[Python-Dev] issue 9141

2010-07-04 Thread Kristján Valur Jónsson
Dear colleagues: I'd like to have your input on http://bugs.python.org/issue9141 "Allow objects to decide if they can be collected by GC." This generalizes the dynamic discovery of finalization state of objects, as already provided for generator objects with PyGen_NeedsFinalizing(),to any objec

Re: [Python-Dev] Thank yous

2010-07-04 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 4 July 2010 17:02, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> Now that Python 2.7 is out, I'd like to thank a few of the people who >> made it possible: > > And not forgetting Benjamin himself for managing the whole thing! +1. Thanks a lot for your hard wo

Re: [Python-Dev] Thank yous

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 4 July 2010 17:02, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Now that Python 2.7 is out, I'd like to thank a few of the people who > made it possible: And not forgetting Benjamin himself for managing the whole thing! Paul. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@py

Re: [Python-Dev] Signs of neglect?

2010-07-04 Thread Éric Araujo
Hello pydev I’d like to volunteer to maintain a tool but I’m not sure where I can help. I’m already proposing changes to Brett for Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py, and I have commented on Tools/i18n bugs, but these ones are already maintained by their authors (e.g. Barry is assigned pygettext bugs) an

Re: [Python-Dev] Thank yous

2010-07-04 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: .. > - Alexander Belopolsky for taking up datetime. I am honored that my contributions have been noticed, but would not be able to contribute as much without support from Mark Dickinson. ___ Pyth

[Python-Dev] 2.7 hg mirror

2010-07-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:34:57 -0500 Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > release candidate of Python 2.7. > > Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it will > also have an extended period of bugfix m

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Larry Hastings
On 07/04/2010 08:34 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second release candidate of Python 2.7. s/second release candidate/release/ *standing ovation* //larry// ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/7/4 Benjamin Peterson : > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > release candidate of Python 2.7. Arg!!! This should, of course, be "final release". -- Regards, Benjamin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

[Python-Dev] Thank yous

2010-07-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Now that Python 2.7 is out, I'd like to thank a few of the people who made it possible: - Martin for building Windows Installers to my schedule, maintaining the tracker and PyPi, and providing lots of guidance and advice. - Ronald for building Mac installers. - Tarek for picking up the reins of di

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Éric Araujo
[Martin Geisler] > You basically need to replay the changes -- the transplant extension can > do this for you. This is more or less a wrapper around 'hg export' > (gives you a diff) and 'hg import' (applies the diff). Core developers seem to be okay with svnmerge, so perhaps a familiar-looking com

[Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second release candidate of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it will also have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Martin Geisler
Éric Araujo writes: >> I'm not sure if I misunderstand Martin's intent, but in principle, if >> you want to merge one changes (not changesets!) branch into another, >> all you need to do would be "hg merge ". Subsequently >> committing the merge (after fixing conflicts) creates a new changeset >>

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Éric Araujo
> I'm not sure if I misunderstand Martin's intent, but in principle, if you > want to merge one changes (not changesets!) branch into another, all you > need to do would be "hg merge ". Subsequently committing > the merge (after fixing conflicts) creates a new changeset "on" the current > branch.

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: > By the way, is eol a requirement for people using Windows tools with > limitations only, or for every person that will clone Python? It's designed so that everyone can run it regardless of platform. If someone chooses not to use it and messes

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.07.2010 13:37, schrieb Martin Geisler: > "Martin v. Löwis" writes: > >>> My question is basically the same as Terry Reedy's, but I'm going to >>> phrase it a bit differently: >>> >>> This is perhaps a naive question, but why do you create a second local >>> clone instead of just creating a

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Éric Araujo
Not requiring any Mercurial extension to contribute to Python would be a nice policy to lower the entry bar. >>> >>> That is already defeated by the need for the eol extension (which is now >>> built-in in hg 1.6). Activating mq is something every developer should >>> manage... >> >> Oka

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.07.2010 13:53, schrieb Éric Araujo: >>> Not requiring any Mercurial extension to contribute to Python would be a >>> nice policy to lower the entry bar. >> >> That is already defeated by the need for the eol extension (which is now >> built-in in hg 1.6). Activating mq is something every de

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Martin Geisler
"Martin v. Löwis" writes: >> My question is basically the same as Terry Reedy's, but I'm going to >> phrase it a bit differently: >> >> This is perhaps a naive question, but why do you create a second local >> clone instead of just creating a branch? > > IIUC, if you create a named branch, the b

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Éric Araujo
>> Not requiring any Mercurial extension to contribute to Python would be a >> nice policy to lower the entry bar. > > That is already defeated by the need for the eol extension (which is now > built-in in hg 1.6). Activating mq is something every developer should > manage... Okay, make that “no

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.07.2010 13:29, schrieb Éric Araujo: > The other risk with history-editing extensions is that they use the > merge and rebase machinery to do their work, so they require a clean > working directory. Otherwise you may loose uncommitted changes. That's true. > Not requiring any Mercurial exten

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Éric Araujo
The other risk with history-editing extensions is that they use the merge and rebase machinery to do their work, so they require a clean working directory. Otherwise you may loose uncommitted changes. Not requiring any Mercurial extension to contribute to Python would be a nice policy to lower the

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.07.2010 00:59, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": >> This is perhaps a naive question, but hat do you gain with the >> intermediate mirror clone of upstream? (Other than filling more of your >> disk?) > > In addition to the answer you got: this way of working is also the > process that I arrived at,

[Python-Dev] distutils2 checking mails

2010-07-04 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hi all ! I am sorry about the flood of mails in checkins this morning. It was annoying. It seems to me that this is a general problem that will appear in CPython too once it's in mercurial. I think this can be easily fixed by a patch policy. I have just sent a mail to python-ideas about this, to