Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-22 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 21.01.2010 04:33, schrieb Ben Finney: Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net writes: But I've no intention to restrict feature releases to every 18-24 months. What now? Now we take further discussion to the ‘python-ideas’ forum. Whoever we is. You can be assured I've not planned any further

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Matthieu Brucher
That's only two points. :-) In French, we say that several starts with 2 ;) On 1; If that's true, I won't mention git again. I tis, you can check on the git repository (it's a mix of C, perl, shell scripts, Python, ...) On 2; Who knows what their life cycle is. You can check on their

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: (Besides, git in the stdlib doesn't make much sense :). Dulwich. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
David Lyon david.lyon at pythontest.org writes: I think I'll have better chances with PEPs. Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even newer code to get in there. [snip] This is python-ideas

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
David Lyon wrote: On 2; Who knows what their life cycle is. CVS is pretty much dead, and svn looks like it is on the way out. I can't think of how anything could be better than mercurial or bzr but I know I will be proved wrong. I believe you misunderstood what Matthieu

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 20.01.2010 03:43, schrieb David Lyon: Barry was talking about mirrors of the python code. It is true a package manager could be developed based on a SCM, however you need to implement this far away from the stdlib and get traction with it within the community long before inclusion would be

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Finney
Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net writes: But I've no intention to restrict feature releases to every 18-24 months. What now? Now we take further discussion to the ‘python-ideas’ forum. -- \ “We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the | `\ sense and to the extent

[Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
I've just updated the Launchpad mirrors for the 4 active Python branches, trunk, py3k, 2.6, and 3.1. These used to mirror the defunct Bazaar branches on code.python.org but it's probably been 7 months or so since those were regularly updated. Now the Launchpad branches sync against the read-only

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
Hi Barry, That looks very interesting... So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given python version using this ? David I've just updated the Launchpad mirrors for the 4 active Python branches, trunk, py3k, 2.6, and 3.1. These used to mirror the defunct Bazaar branches on

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, David Lyon wrote: Hi Barry, That looks very interesting... Hi David, So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given python version using this ? In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly). You can use Bazaar to branch any of the 4 Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Barry wrote: So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given python version using this ? In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly). Yeah, it just needs an implementation. The one thing I am unsure about, mostly because I have not

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, David Lyon david.l...@pythontest.org wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Barry wrote: So does that mean we could update the stdlib for a given python version using this ? In a sense, yes (if I understand your question correctly). Yeah, it just needs an

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 19, 2010, at 08:09 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: The decision to move python's source control from SVN to mercurial was controversial enough; including 3 or more scm libraries into core would be an intractable uphill mountain of bike sheds. I'd be surprised if any of the big 3 DVCS developers

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: Python 3 is still modularized, still has a standard library, etc. If you're really interested in helping with the standard library, get on stdlib-sig, and get ready to write code and PEPs. Thank you for your direction to move these items

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:43 PM, David Lyon david.l...@pythontest.org wrote: [snip] Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even newer code to get in there. Did you ever stop to think that some

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
David Lyon david.l...@pythontest.org writes: Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even newer code to get in there. Those are applications, not libraries. Applications don't belong in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 21:43, David Lyon david.l...@pythontest.org wrote: Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even newer code to get in there. I'm not entirely sure I see why the inclusion

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 20, 2010, at 02:43 PM, David Lyon wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: A SCM is not a package management system. Exactly. It almost makes the need for a package management system pretty much obsolete if you can update your code directly from the developers

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
On Jan 19, 2010, at 08:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I'd be surprised if any of the big 3 DVCS developers would actually /want/ their stuff in the stdlib. If they ask, they'll get told they're motorbike-shedding. It's better if their users ask. So here I am as a user doing things the 'right'

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
Okay, last follow up on this and then I'm going to bed. :) On Jan 20, 2010, at 03:29 PM, David Lyon wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 08:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I'd be surprised if any of the big 3 DVCS developers would actually /want/ their stuff in the stdlib. If they ask, they'll get told

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
David Lyon david.l...@pythontest.org writes: Being honest, if wonderful libraries like Sphinx and Mercurial and Git and BZR can't make it into the stdlib, then there is no hope for even newer code to get in there. Those are applications, not libraries. Applications don't belong in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org writes: On Jan 20, 2010, at 03:29 PM, David Lyon wrote: So here I am as a user doing things the 'right' way. Actually, you're not. It's not up to the Python community to initiate this. If you really want this, you should engage with the relevant DVCS

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
David Lyon david.l...@pythontest.org writes: Well using that logic, distutils is an application.. Distutils is an application, the function of which is essential to allowing sane development of Python packages. It's a special case. We need to strictly limit the number of special cases, not

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread Matthieu Brucher
I'd be happy to see bzr and mercurial and git all made it together into the stdlib for python 3. That would give a superb updating mechanism for python that would propel python well beyond the dinosaur badlands of CPAN and other languages. I think there are several points that make them not

Re: [Python-Dev] Bazaar branches available (again) on Launchpad

2010-01-19 Thread David Lyon
Matthieu, I'd be happy to see bzr and mercurial and git all made it together into the stdlib for python 3. That would give a superb updating mechanism for python that would propel python well beyond the dinosaur badlands of CPAN and other languages. I think there are several points that