Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 06:50, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:33 PM, anatoly techtonik > wrote: > >> Making and testing a patch from Python checkout requires compiling > >> Python, which is not possible for Windows use

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 02.02.2011 13:50, schrieb anatoly techtonik: >>> We should add less >>> hardcore instructions how to use bundled diff.py for creating simple >>> patches like docstring, comment fixes or generating new testcases. >>> This will greatly reduce the barrier for starting with development. >> >> Given

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread Simon Cross
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:33 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > How about patches sent by users who track and fix bugs directly in > codebase of their Python installation? While I don't personally endorse the above approach, if you're going to develop inside your installed site-packages folder it see

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:33 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> Making and testing a patch from Python checkout requires compiling >> Python, which is not possible for Windows users. > > That latter comment hasn't been true since Microsoft starte

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:33 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Making and testing a patch from Python checkout requires compiling > Python, which is not possible for Windows users. That latter comment hasn't been true since Microsoft started releasing the Visual Studio Express editions. > We should

[Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:14:51 +0100 > Ezio Melotti wrote: >> > + >> > +Committing Patches >> > +== > [...] >> > + >> > +    svnmerge.py merge -r 42 >> > + >> > +This will try to apply the patch to the current patch and genera