Re: [Python-Dev] dear core-devs

2018-10-01 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/2018 06:41 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > And, while you may not give a damn about anything other than Windows, > macos and/or Linux - there are other platforms that would like a > stable Python. Michael, I can understand the frustration you fe

Re: [Python-Dev] dear core-devs

2018-10-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Michael, and welcome, On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 12:41:56AM +0200, Michael Felt wrote: [...] > FYI: since the end of July I have dedicated 16 to 24 hours of my free > time to get this done. All for Python; all in my freetime. My employer > does not care - I do, or did. [...] > I am, to put it li

Re: [Python-Dev] LDLAST variable in configure.ac

2018-10-01 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, at 12:12, Michael Felt wrote: > Hi all, > > Before I submit a patch to increase the default MAXDATA setting for AIX > when in 32-bit mode - I want to know if I can put this LDFLAG setting in > LDLAST, or if I should introduce a new AC_SUBST() variable (e.g., > LDMAXDATA).

[Python-Dev] dear core-devs

2018-10-01 Thread Michael Felt
Dear core-devs, I have some bad characteristics. I can be extremely enthusiastic - and write too much. I have been trying to not write - anything - worried that my enthusiasm is not matched by yours, or worse was a reason to ignore my work to get AIX passing all tests. FYI: since the end of July

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Matthias Bussonnier
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 13:38, Victor Stinner wrote: > Le lun. 1 oct. 2018 à 22:32, Tres Seaver a écrit : > > I'm pretty strongly -1 on the notion that folks who subscribe python-dev, > > BPO, and the github repositories should need to *also* follow an > > arbitrarily-growing set of Twitter accoun

Re: [Python-Dev] Change in Python 3's "round" behavior

2018-10-01 Thread Michael Felt
On 9/30/2018 2:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > (It's also called Dutch Rounding.) Ah - as to why - and from school! (as so-called intuitive! rather desired!). A test score goes from 5.5 to 6.0 - which becomes passing. Oh, do I recall my children's frustrations when they had a X.4Y score - tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Victor Stinner
Le lun. 1 oct. 2018 à 22:32, Tres Seaver a écrit : > I'm pretty strongly -1 on the notion that folks who subscribe python-dev, > BPO, and the github repositories should need to *also* follow an > arbitrarily-growing set of Twitter accounts: how would one know if a new > one popped into being? Ho

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/01/2018 01:29 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: I'm pretty strongly -1 on the notion that folks who subscribe python-dev, BPO, and the github repositories should need to *also* follow an arbitrarily-growing set of Twitter accounts: how would one know if a new one popped into being? How likely is it

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Tres Seaver
On 10/01/2018 07:19 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Some core developers are also active on Twitter. Some ideas were first > discussed on Twitter. You may want to follow some of them. Incomplete > list of core devs that I follow: I'm pretty strongly -1 on the notion that folks who subscribe python-de

[Python-Dev] LDLAST variable in configure.ac

2018-10-01 Thread Michael Felt
Hi all, Before I submit a patch to increase the default MAXDATA setting for AIX when in 32-bit mode - I want to know if I can put this LDFLAG setting in LDLAST, or if I should introduce a new AC_SUBST() variable (e.g., LDMAXDATA). I have not looked yet, but I was thinking that MAYBE! LDLAST is in

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Brett Cannon
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 05:15, Chris Jerdonek wrote: > Another one is GitHub (and the bug tracker, for that matter). For > example, I believe here is where the discussion took place that led to > the initial draft of PEP 582 re: recognizing a local __packages__ > directory: > https://github.com/kus

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Victor Stinner
Le lun. 1 oct. 2018 à 14:14, Chris Jerdonek a écrit : > Also, if you are trying to be complete, another communication channel > is in-person events and conferences, etc. Right, there are two main events for CPython core developers which are only in the US: * Language Summit during Pycon US (one

Re: [Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Chris Jerdonek
Another one is GitHub (and the bug tracker, for that matter). For example, I believe here is where the discussion took place that led to the initial draft of PEP 582 re: recognizing a local __packages__ directory: https://github.com/kushaldas/peps/pull/1 The PEP was posted here: https://github.com

[Python-Dev] Communication channels

2018-10-01 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Last months, new communication channels appear. This is just a reminder that they exist: * Zulip: https://python.zulipchat.com/ (exist since 1 year?) * Discourse: http://discuss.python.org/ (I'm not sure if it's fully official yet ;-)) * IRC: #python-dev on FreeNode, only for development *of*