Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-14 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> Removing the dependency on db_static.vcproj and merging the relevant > source code files into _bsddb.vcproj did the trick -- all x64 > bsddb-related tests now pass. The only issue with this approach is > that it locks _bsddb.vcproj into 4.4.20. However, considering that > this approach (i.e. br

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-14 Thread Trent Nelson
> > Removing the dependency on db_static.vcproj and merging the relevant > > source code files into _bsddb.vcproj did the trick -- all x64 > > bsddb-related tests now pass. The only issue with this approach is > > that it locks _bsddb.vcproj into 4.4.20. However, considering that > > this approac

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-14 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> I reviewed all the compiler options used by db_static.vcproj -- the > only thing I needed to bring over was -DDIAGNOSTIC for debug builds. > Everything else either had no impact and could be safely dropped, or > conflicted with compiler options used by the rest of the python build > (function lev

[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2008-03-14 Thread Tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (03/07/08 - 03/14/08) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1735 open (+23) / 12380 closed (+14) / 14115 total (+37) Open issues with patches: 474 Average durati

[Python-Dev] Link in license broken

2008-03-14 Thread Georg Brandl
While fixing the broken links in the docs, I saw that the link to http://www.pythonlabs.com/logos.html in the "BEOPEN PYTHON OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT VERSION 1" is broken. What to do about that? Georg ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.

[Python-Dev] range in future_builtins?

2008-03-14 Thread Eric Smith
In the keynote, Guido mentioned switching from range to xrange in 2.6 code, as a migration strategy. Another option would be to add range to future_builtins, and have it call xrange. Would that be desirable? ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Link in license broken

2008-03-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While fixing the broken links in the docs, I saw that the link to > http://www.pythonlabs.com/logos.html in the "BEOPEN PYTHON OPEN SOURCE > LICENSE AGREEMENT VERSION 1" is broken. > > What to do about that? Too bad. BeO

Re: [Python-Dev] range in future_builtins?

2008-03-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
Sure. The 3.0 range() isn't exactly the same as the 2.6 xrange(), so it would have to be a proper backport (sorry, I don't recall the exact difference, but I remember it's been redone, perhaps to support long integers). It seems pretty minor though. The advantage of using xrange() is that you rema

[Python-Dev] Problems building python2.4 SRPM on RHEL4 x64

2008-03-14 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I appologize if this is not the right place to post this, but searching through the old archives, I ran across the same issue from 3 years ago, but I cannot find the resolution to it. Currently, I am trying to build the python2.4 SRPM from Python.org on a CentOS4.6_x64 platform, but the bu