Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Petri Lehtinen
Michael Foord wrote: We tend to see 3.2 - 3.3 as a major version increment, but that's just Python's terminology. Even though (in the documentation) Python's version number components are called major, minor, micro, releaselevel and serial, in this order? So when the minor version component is

Re: [Python-Dev] Long term development external named branches and periodic merges from python

2011-11-29 Thread Petri Lehtinen
Nick Coghlan wrote: So, in this context, if the tracker create patch diff from BASE, it is not safe to merge changes from mainline to the branch, because if so create patch would include code not related to my work. No, Create Patch is smarter than that. What it does (or tries to do) is

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:46:06PM +0200, Petri Lehtinen wrote: Michael Foord wrote: We tend to see 3.2 - 3.3 as a major version increment, but that's just Python's terminology. Even though (in the documentation) Python's version number components are called major, minor, micro,

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 29, 2011, at 01:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Well, that's why I think the version number components are not correctly named. I don't think any of the 2.x or 3.x releases can be called minor by any stretch of the word. A quick glance at http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/index.html should

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 29.11.2011 13:46, schrieb Petri Lehtinen: Michael Foord wrote: We tend to see 3.2 - 3.3 as a major version increment, but that's just Python's terminology. Even though (in the documentation) Python's version number components are called major, minor, micro, releaselevel and serial, in

[Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed

2011-11-29 Thread Nadeem Vawda
Hey folks, I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression algorithm (as well as the associated .xz and .lzma file formats). The new lzma module has a very similar API to the existing bz2 module; it should serve as a

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #6715: Add module for compression using the LZMA algorithm.

2011-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:36:58 +0100 nadeem.vawda python-check...@python.org wrote: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/74d182cf0187 changeset: 73794:74d182cf0187 user:Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com date:Wed Nov 30 00:25:06 2011 +0200 summary: Issue #6715: Add module for

Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed

2011-11-29 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
2011/11/29 Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression algorithm Congratulations! I'd like to ask the owners of (non-Windows) buildbots to install the XZ Utils

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 01:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Well, that's why I think the version number components are not correctly named. I don't think any of the 2.x or 3.x releases can be called minor by any stretch of the word. A

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2011/11/29 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 01:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Well, that's why I think the version number components are not correctly named. I don't think any of the 2.x or 3.x releases can

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation policy

2011-11-29 Thread Matt Joiner
I like this article on it: http://semver.org/ The following snippets being relevant here: Minor version Y (x.Y.z | x 0) MUST be incremented if new, backwards compatible functionality is introduced to the public API. It MUST be incremented if any public API functionality is marked as

Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed

2011-11-29 Thread Matt Joiner
Congrats, this is an excellent feature. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/29 Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression

Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed

2011-11-29 Thread Meador Inge
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com wrote: liblzma-dev; on Fedora I believe the correct package is xz-devel. xz-devel is right. I just verified a build of the new module on a fresh F16 system. -- Meador ___