Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tennessee Leeuwenburg writes: > Can I ask if there's any sense in pursuing a release schedule which > is slow for whatever might be deemed the "most core modules" but > faster for "less core modules"? I think you need to be more specific about how many levels of "fast" there should be, and why

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:26 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real > featureful > > schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense > to > > tighten future release planning a little? > > Do you have any speci

[Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: > Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a > real featureful schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, > wouldn't it make sense to tighten future release planning a little? With all due respect, it's easy and natural to have a short, featu

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] py3k, cgi, email, and form-data

2009-05-12 Thread Graham Dumpleton
2009/5/12 Robert Brewer : > There's a major change in functionality in the cgi module between Python > 2 and Python 3 which I've just run across: the behavior of > FieldStorage.read_multi, specifically when an HTTP app accepts a file > upload within a multipart/form-data payload. > > In Python 2, e

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Greg Ewing
MRAB wrote: Next you'll be saying that they should be named after years. Python 2010, anyone? :-) To keep people on their toes, we should switch to a completely random new naming scheme with every release, like Microsoft has been doing with Windows. -- Greg ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] py3k, cgi, email, and form-data

2009-05-12 Thread Robert Brewer
Graham Dumpleton wrote: > 2009/5/12 Robert Brewer : > > There's a major change in functionality in the cgi module between > Python > > 2 and Python 3 which I've just run across: the behavior of > > FieldStorage.read_multi, specifically when an HTTP app accepts a file > > upload within a multipart/f

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real > featureful > schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense to > tighten future release planning a little? Do you have any specific releases in mind that you would like to apply such a tightened sc

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Collin Winter
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Hello, > > Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real > featureful > schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense to > tighten future release planning a little? I was thinking something

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 12, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real featureful schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense to tighten future release planning a little? I was thinking something like doing a ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
MRAB mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: > Next you'll be saying that they should be named after years. Python > 2010, anyone? After py3k, that would be a regression ;) cheers Antoine. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread MRAB
Antoine Pitrou wrote: Hello, Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real featureful schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense to tighten future release planning a little? I was thinking something like doing a major release every 12 months

[Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real featureful schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense to tighten future release planning a little? I was thinking something like doing a major release every 12 months (rather than 18 to 24 mo

Re: [Python-Dev] CVE-2008-5983 "untrusted python modules search path"

2009-05-12 Thread jek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antoine Pitrou napsal(a): > Hello, > > I don't think it has already posted to the list, apologies if it has. > > Some Linux tools and vendors have been hit by an alleged "security hole" where > an embedded Python interpreter will prepend the curren

Re: [Python-Dev] Switchover: mail.python.org

2009-05-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 11, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [20090511 14:47], Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) wrote: On Monday 2009-05-11, mail.python.org will be switched to another machine starting roughly at 14:00 UTC. This should be invisible (expected downtime is less than ten min

Re: [Python-Dev] Switchover: mail.python.org

2009-05-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090512 18:41], Barry Warsaw (ba...@python.org) wrote: >Somehow, personalization got turned off for python-checkins. This >disables VERPing of the headers. I've turned it back on, so please >let me know if that fixes the issue. This did not appear to happen >si

Re: [Python-Dev] A wordcode-based Python

2009-05-12 Thread Cesare Di Mauro
On Tue, May 12, 2009 05:27 PM, Collin Winter wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Cesare Di Mauro > wrote: >> Another note. Fredrik Johansson let me note just few minutes ago that >> I've >> compiled my sources without PGO optimizations enabled. >> >> That's because I used Visual Studio Expre

Re: [Python-Dev] A wordcode-based Python

2009-05-12 Thread Collin Winter
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Cesare Di Mauro wrote: > Another note. Fredrik Johansson let me note just few minutes ago that I've > compiled my sources without PGO optimizations enabled. > > That's because I used Visual Studio Express Edition. > > So another gain in performances can be obtained

Re: [Python-Dev] A wordcode-based Python

2009-05-12 Thread Cesare Di Mauro
On Thu, May 12, 2009 01:40PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hi Cesare, > > Cesare Di Mauro a-tono.com> writes: >> >> It was my idea too, but first I need to take a deep look at what parts >> of code are changed from 2.6 to 3.0. >> That's because I don't know how much work is required for this >> "forw

Re: [Python-Dev] A wordcode-based Python

2009-05-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi Cesare, Cesare Di Mauro a-tono.com> writes: > > It was my idea too, but first I need to take a deep look at what parts > of code are changed from 2.6 to 3.0. > That's because I don't know how much work is required for this > "forward" port. If you have some questions or need some help, send