Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker Stats

2014-06-23 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:25 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 04:12:24PM -0400, R. David Murray wrote: >> The stats graphs are based on the data generated for the >> weekly issue report. I have a patched version of that >> report that adds the bug/enhancement info. > > After PyC

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker Stats

2014-06-23 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:52 PM, francis wrote: > >> Hi, >> I added a new "stats" page to the bug tracker: >> http://bugs.python.org/issue?@template=stats > > Thanks Ezio, > > Two questions: > how hard would be to add (or enhance) a chart with the > “open issues type enhancement” and “open issues

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 24 Jun 2014 07:29, "Donald Stufft" wrote: > > > On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > On Jun 23, 2014, at 05:15 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > >> Normally when I see someone suggest that switching compilers > >> in 2.7.x is likely to be less work than releasing a 2.8 It normal

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker Stats

2014-06-23 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 04:12:24PM -0400, R. David Murray wrote: > The stats graphs are based on the data generated for the > weekly issue report. I have a patched version of that > report that adds the bug/enhancement info. After PyCon, I started working on a scraper that would produce a bunch o

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:42 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> See my other message. It's actually heavier, since it requires changes >> to distutils, PyPI, pip, buildout etc., all which know how to deal with >> Python minor version numbers, bu

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:42 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > See my other message. It's actually heavier, since it requires changes > to distutils, PyPI, pip, buildout etc., all which know how to deal with > Python minor version numbers, but are unaware of the notion of competing > ABIs on Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 23, 2014, at 05:28 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >Can you clarify? What support guarantees will we make about Python 2.8? Will it be supported as long as Python 2.7? Longer? Will we now have two long-term support versions or change *years* of expectations that users should transition off of

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/21/2014 02:48 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: On 06/21/2014 02:37 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: My answers to these are: 1. We should use dynamic linking instead and not let OpenSSL bugs trigger Python releases; 2. It's not a big problem; 3. Yes, please, since it is difficult for people to develop and

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 23, 2014, at 05:15 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > >> Normally when I see someone suggest that switching compilers >> in 2.7.x is likely to be less work than releasing a 2.8 It normally >> appears to me they haven’t looked at the impact on th

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 23, 2014, at 05:15 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >Normally when I see someone suggest that switching compilers >in 2.7.x is likely to be less work than releasing a 2.8 It normally >appears to me they haven’t looked at the impact on the packaging >tooling. Just to be clear, releasing a Python 2.

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Chris Kaynor
Not being a Python developer, I normally just lurk on Py-Dev, but I figured I'd throw this out there for this thread: Recent version of Maya embed Python 2.x, and the newer version of Maya (I believe 2012 was the first version) embeds a Python 2.7 compiled with VS 2010. From my experience, most C

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:07 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 23.06.2014 22:20, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> On Jun 23, 2014, at 3:27 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >>> On 23.06.2014 18:09, Donald Stufft wrote: On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> >> * Should

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Ned Deily
In article <14de41e2-5314-4e49-be93-85eeeddde...@stufft.io>, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Martin v. Lowis wrote: > > >> > >> Would that mitigate the pain, assuming that > >> Steve (or someone else) would be willing to build the additional > >> installers for the trans

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 23.06.2014 22:20, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2014, at 3:27 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> On 23.06.2014 18:09, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> > > * Should we make use of the potential breakage with 2.7.10 > to introdu

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 23.06.14 22:31, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > Well, on reason is that you'd have to convince MvL or someone else to take > over the work that would require, but that's gotta be *much* lighter weight > than releasing a Python 2.8. Just to point this out in a separate message: it will have to be somebo

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> >> Would that mitigate the pain, assuming that >> Steve (or someone else) would be willing to build the additional >> installers for the transition period? I've done something similar on a >> smaller scale with the OS X 32-bit installer

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 23.06.14 22:31, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Jun 23, 2014, at 04:20 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > >> At the risk of getting Guido to post his slide again, I still think the >> solution to the old compiler is to just roll a 2.8 with minimal changes. > > No. It's not going to happen, for all the rea

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Dower
> Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le 23/06/2014 15:27, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> >> Not sure what you mean. We've had binary wininst distributions for >> Windows for more than a decade, and egg and msi distributions for 8 >> years :-) >> >> But without access to the VS 2008 compiler that is needed to co

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 23.06.14 21:53, schrieb Ned Deily: > It does seem like a conundrum. As I have no deep Windows experience to > be able to have an appreciation of all of the technical issues involved, > I ask out of ignorance: would it be possible and desirable to provide a > transition period of n 2.7.x main

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 23, 2014, at 04:20 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > >> At the risk of getting Guido to post his slide again, I still think the >> solution to the old compiler is to just roll a 2.8 with minimal changes. > > No. It's not going to happen, for

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 23.06.14 22:04, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > Le 23/06/2014 15:27, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> >> Not sure what you mean. We've had binary wininst distributions >> for Windows for more than a decade, and egg and msi distributions >> for 8 years :-) >> >> But without access to the VS 2008 compiler tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/23/2014 01:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le 23/06/2014 15:27, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : Not sure what you mean. We've had binary wininst distributions for Windows for more than a decade, and egg and msi distributions for 8 years :-) But without access to the VS 2008 compiler that is needed

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 23, 2014, at 04:20 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >At the risk of getting Guido to post his slide again, I still think the >solution to the old compiler is to just roll a 2.8 with minimal changes. No. It's not going to happen, for all the reasons discussed previously. Python 2.8 is not a soluti

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 3:27 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 23.06.2014 18:09, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> * Should we make use of the potential breakage with 2.7.10 to introduce a new Windows compiler version for Python 2.7 ? >

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker Stats

2014-06-23 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:52:33 +0200, francis wrote: > > > Hi, > > I added a new "stats" page to the bug tracker: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue?@template=stats > Thanks Ezio, > > Two questions: > how hard would be to add (or enhance) a chart with the > “open issues type enhancement” and “

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 23/06/2014 15:27, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : Not sure what you mean. We've had binary wininst distributions for Windows for more than a decade, and egg and msi distributions for 8 years :-) But without access to the VS 2008 compiler that is needed to compile those extensions, It does seem to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Ned Deily
In article <53a87fb3.2000...@egenix.com>, "M.-A. Lemburg" wrote: [...] > But without access to the VS 2008 compiler that is needed to > compile those extensions, it will become increasingly difficult > for package authors to provide such binary packages, so we have to > ask ourselves: > > What's

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 23.06.2014 18:09, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >>> >>> * Should we make use of the potential breakage with 2.7.10 >>> to introduce a new Windows compiler version for Python 2.7 ? >> >> Assuming it is a good idea to continue producing Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> >> * Should we make use of the potential breakage with 2.7.10 >> to introduce a new Windows compiler version for Python 2.7 ? > > Assuming it is a good idea to continue producing Windows binaries > for 2.7, I think it would be a bad idea

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker Stats

2014-06-23 Thread francis
Hi, I added a new "stats" page to the bug tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue?@template=stats Thanks Ezio, Two questions: how hard would be to add (or enhance) a chart with the “open issues type enhancement” and “open issues type bug” info ? In the summaries there is a link to “Issues with