Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
While I think there is some risk of exposure on this bug, I haven't yet heard a compelling argument for delaying 2.6.4 final for it. I think we should go ahead and do the release this Sunday as planned with the code from 2.6.4rc2. If you strongly disagree, please private email me. Otherwi

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:27 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/10/22 Robert Collins : > > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:16 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > > ... > >> That being said, I can't this bug as a release blocker: people can > >> either upgrade to super-current Boost, or stick with 2.6.2 until they ca

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread James Y Knight
On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:16 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: ... That being said, I can't this bug as a release blocker: people can either upgrade to super-current Boost, or stick with 2.6.2 until they can. Thats the challenge Ubuntu faces: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:16 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: ... That being said, I can't this bug as a release blocker: people can either upgrade to super-current Boost, or stick with 2.6.2 until they can. Thats the challenge Ubuntu faces: https

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Moore
2009/10/22 Robert Collins : > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:16 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > ... >> That being said, I can't this bug as a release blocker:  people can >> either upgrade to super-current Boost, or stick with 2.6.2 until they can. > > Thats the challenge Ubuntu faces: > https://bugs.edge.la

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:16 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: ... > That being said, I can't this bug as a release blocker: people can > either upgrade to super-current Boost, or stick with 2.6.2 until they can. Thats the challenge Ubuntu faces: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boost1.38/+b

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Georg Brandl
Tres Seaver schrieb: > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >>> 2009/10/22 Barry Warsaw : So does anybody else think bug 7183 should be a release blocker for 2.6.4 final, or is even a legitimate but that we need to fix? >>> I think it can

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 at 13:16, Tres Seaver wrote: The fix for 5890 has a funny "smell" to me: copying __doc__ into the instance dict just feels wrong. How does that work with a pure Python class using slots? E.g.: It doesn't. There's even a test to make sure it doesn't :) (It raises an attrib

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: That being said, I can't this bug as a release blocker: people can either upgrade to super-current Boost, or stick with 2.6.2 until they can. Agreed. I've knocked it down from release-blocker. -Barryu PGP.sig Description: This is a digita

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >> 2009/10/22 Barry Warsaw : >>> So does anybody else think bug 7183 should be a release blocker for >>> 2.6.4 >>> final, or is even a legitimate but that we need to fix?

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread James Y Knight
On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: 2009/10/22 Barry Warsaw : So does anybody else think bug 7183 should be a release blocker for 2.6.4 final, or is even a legitimate but that we need to fix? I think it cannot hold up a

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: 2009/10/22 Barry Warsaw : So does anybody else think bug 7183 should be a release blocker for 2.6.4 final, or is even a legitimate but that we need to fix? I think it cannot hold up a release with out a reproducible code snippet. It

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/10/22 Barry Warsaw : > So does anybody else think bug 7183 should be a release blocker for 2.6.4 > final, or is even a legitimate but that we need to fix? I think it cannot hold up a release with out a reproducible code snippet. -- Regards, Benjamin ___

[Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
I'd like to get a second opinion on bug 7183: http://bugs.python.org/issue7183 The Boost folks have reported this as a regression in 2.6.3, making it a candidate for Python 2.6.4. IIUC, the latest version of Boost fixes the problem in their code, but if it really is a regression it could