Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 08.05.2014 23:22, Donald Stufft wrote: On a personal note, I'm uncomfortable with the way this change is perceived as a case of *pip* enforcing a behaviour that the pip developers feel should be required. I actually don't like this change particularly. So having pip implement the

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 9 May 2014 05:34, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: On May 8, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: Socially, this change does not seem to be having the effect of persuading more package developers to host on PyPI. The stick doesn't appear to have worked, maybe we

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Stefan Krah
Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: I?m unsure if you?re being willfully dense or if you?re just not understanding what I mean when I say ?almost?. Of course there are going to be a few outliers where people do bother to do that, but it?s not going to be common place at all. I suggest

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 4:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 08.05.2014 23:22, Donald Stufft wrote: On a personal note, I'm uncomfortable with the way this change is perceived as a case of *pip* enforcing a behaviour that the pip developers feel should be required. I actually don't

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 9 May 2014 12:44, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: We still wouldn't be forcing anyone to upload things to PyPI. We are, however, discouraging people from not hosting on PyPI and providing incentives to doing that. But you're doing so by inflicting pain on people using pip to install

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 5:01 AM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2014 05:34, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: On May 8, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: Socially, this change does not seem to be having the effect of persuading more package developers

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 9 May 2014 21:55, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2014 12:44, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: I think it's important to point out that one of the driving factors that caused me to finally push for changes and what lead to PEP438 being created was that Mercurial's

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2014 12:44, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: We still wouldn't be forcing anyone to upload things to PyPI. We are, however, discouraging people from not hosting on PyPI and providing incentives to doing that.

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 9 May 2014 13:06, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: I think it's important to point out that one of the driving factors that caused me to finally push for changes and what lead to PEP438 being created was that Mercurial's external hosted was being extremely flaky. I can't remember

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2014 13:06, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: I think it's important to point out that one of the driving factors that caused me to finally push for changes and what lead to PEP438 being created was that

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Stefan Krah
Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: You're claiming that Mercurial moved to hosting on PyPI solely because users suddenly needed to add a flag to install from pip? As opposed to because PyPI gave them a more reliable hosting platform, for example? OK. I certainly can't give any evidence to

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 9 May 2014 13:25, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: You're claiming that Mercurial moved to hosting on PyPI solely because users suddenly needed to add a flag to install from pip? As opposed to because PyPI gave them a more reliable hosting platform, for example? OK. I certainly can't

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:47:49 +0100 Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2014 13:25, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: You're claiming that Mercurial moved to hosting on PyPI solely because users suddenly needed to add a flag to install from pip? As opposed to because PyPI gave

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/08/2014 02:02 PM, Paul Moore wrote: Socially, this change does not seem to be having the effect of persuading more package developers to host on PyPI. The stick doesn't appear to have worked, maybe we should be trying to find a carrot? Or maybe we have to accept that some developers have

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 09.05.2014 13:44, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 4:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Donald: I don't think anyone is arguing that hosting packages on PyPI is a bad thing and PyPI as a service has gotten a lot better than it was a few years ago. Didn’t mean to imply

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 06:09:28AM -0700, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: On 05/08/2014 02:02 PM, Paul Moore wrote: Well, I do host a small handful of modules on PyPI, but I can say that some of my pain points are: - getting a good name: the obvious ones are taken, so the search

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 9:58 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 09.05.2014 13:44, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 4:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Donald: I don't think anyone is arguing that hosting packages on PyPI is a bad thing and PyPI as a service has gotten

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2014-05-09 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2014-05-02 - 2014-05-09) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open4611 ( +6) closed 28624 (+42) total 33235 (+48) Open issues

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Stefan Krah
Donald, I'm out of his discussion. I have one last request: please don't gossip about core devs in public as long as you have commit privs: https://botbot.me/freenode/python-requests/ Stefan Krah ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 09.05.2014 17:39, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 9:58 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 09.05.2014 13:44, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 4:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Donald: I don't think anyone is arguing that hosting packages on PyPI is a

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Stefan Krah ste...@bytereef.org wrote: Donald, I'm out of his discussion. I have one last request: please don't gossip about core devs in public as long as you have commit privs: https://botbot.me/freenode/python-requests/ I don’t really know how to respond to

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Ian Cordasco
Stefan, If the only way you can think of to invalidate Donald's (vastly superior) arguments is to accuse of him of gossip, you should probably reconsider your arguments. Looking at the conversation you didn't actually link to (https://botbot.me/freenode/python-requests/msg/14389415/) there is no

Re: [Python-Dev] Tix version needed to build 2.7 Windows installer?

2014-05-09 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Zachary Ware zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com wrote: I updated the 2.7 buildbot scripts to pull in Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 a couple of weeks ago (see http://bugs.python.org/issue21303), but hadn't gotten anything done with Tix yet. It should just need python.mak updated to

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 09 May 2014 11:39:02 -0400, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 9:58 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 09.05.2014 13:44, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 4:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: I snipped the rest of the discussion and

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 1:28 PM, R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Fri, 09 May 2014 11:39:02 -0400, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 9:58 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 09.05.2014 13:44, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 4:12 AM, M.-A.

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/9/2014 2:12 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 1:28 PM, R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: I don't understand this. Why it is our responsibility to provide a free service for a large project to repeatedly download a set of files they need? Why does it not make more

Re: [Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

2014-05-09 Thread Donald Stufft
On May 9, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 5/9/2014 2:12 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 1:28 PM, R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: I don't understand this. Why it is our responsibility to provide a free service for a large project to

[Python-Dev] should tests be thread-safe?

2014-05-09 Thread akira
Hi, May tests expect that unless they themselves start a thread then there are no threads to worry about? I see that some old tests are not thread-safe and I have not found it to be explicitly mentioned in the devguide. I've written a test for http://bugs.python.org/issue21332 that is

[Python-Dev] pushing 2.7.7 back a week

2014-05-09 Thread Benjamin Peterson
I'm pushing the release schedule for 2.7.7 back a week. That means the release candidate will be next weekend (May 17). This will hopefully save some trouble for the people who build our binaries, since 3.4.1 final is happening next weekend, too. Regards, Benjamin