Re: [Python-Dev] PEP acceptance and SIGs

2015-09-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 1 October 2015 at 10:19, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > It has been my understanding that some PEPs may be discussed on specialized > mailings lists, but a notice would be given on python-dev prior to any > acceptance. No, that only applies for changes that actually impact the reference interpr

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP acceptance and SIGs

2015-09-30 Thread Donald Stufft
On September 30, 2015 at 9:14:42 PM, Alexander Belopolsky (alexander.belopol...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > > I don’t see any requirement to post PEPs to python-dev if they have a > Discussions-To header in PEP 1. > > > When I faced a similar

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP acceptance and SIGs

2015-09-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 30, 2015, at 09:14 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: >When I faced a similar situation with PEP 495, Guido's advise was "I think >that a courtesy message to python-dev is appropriate, with a link to the >PEP and an invitation to discuss its merits on datetime-sig." [1] Certainly Discussions-

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP acceptance and SIGs

2015-09-30 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > I don’t see any requirement to post PEPs to python-dev if they have a Discussions-To header in PEP 1. When I faced a similar situation with PEP 495, Guido's advise was "I think that a courtesy message to python-dev is appropriate, with a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP acceptance and SIGs

2015-09-30 Thread Donald Stufft
On September 30, 2015 at 8:20:53 PM, Alexander Belopolsky (alexander.belopol...@gmail.com) wrote: > It has been my understanding that some PEPs may be discussed on specialized > mailings lists, but a notice would be given on python-dev prior to any > acceptance. > I don’t see any requirement to

[Python-Dev] PEP acceptance and SIGs

2015-09-30 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
It has been my understanding that some PEPs may be discussed on specialized mailings lists, but a notice would be given on python-dev prior to any acceptance. I have recently received a notification that since PEP 470 has been accepted, I can no longer use external hosting for one of the packages

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-30 Thread Carl Kleffner
It should be possible with Wine. Am 30.09.2015 22:50 schrieb "Laurent Gautier" : > Hi Carl, > > Looks promising. > > Any chance the effort would consider cross-compiling (from Linux) as a > possible objective ? > > Best, > > Laurent > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:58 PM Carl Kleffner wrote: > >> Conc

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-30 Thread Laurent Gautier
Hi Carl, Looks promising. Any chance the effort would consider cross-compiling (from Linux) as a possible objective ? Best, Laurent On Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:58 PM Carl Kleffner wrote: > Concerning the claims that mingw is difficult: > > The mingwpy package is a sligthly modified mingw-w64 bas

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-30 Thread Carl Kleffner
Concerning the claims that mingw is difficult: The mingwpy package is a sligthly modified mingw-w64 based gcc toolchain, that is in development. It is designed for simple use and for much better compatibility to the standard MSVC python builds. It should work out of the box, as long as the \Script

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Moore
On 30 September 2015 at 16:57, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: >> 1. Install "Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4" (v7.1) >> 2. Work from an SDK command prompt (with the environment variables >> set, and the SDK on PATH). >> 3. Set DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1 >> 4. Done. > > This, unfortunat

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-30 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
TL;DR -- yes, documenting this in packaging.python.org would be great! > Part of the problem here is that people put up postings saying "do > this" having checked that it works for them, and then others say "but > it doesn't work", without giving any information as to why or > providing any means

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Moore
On 30 September 2015 at 01:31, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: > It may be -- I've still have to test. Neither Windows nor py3 are my > primary production versions. Part of the problem here is that people put up postings saying "do this" having checked that it works for them, and then others s