On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:43:18PM +0200, Tarek Ziad? wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:43 PM, C. Titus Brown <c...@msu.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:28:35AM -0400, Jesse Noller wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > It looks like it will be something covered at the language summit, but an > >> > open space is a good idea. Backwards compatibility is a *big* problem for > >> > any major refactoring though. > >> > > >> > Michael > >> > > >> > >> Yup, language summit. I'm hoping to cover some amount of this in a > >> pending talk proposal I have in the pycon system too. > > > > One interesting thought for backwards compatibility -- why not take all > > of the PyPI packages and try importing and/or testing them across > > versions, and then trying to build automatic classifiers to highlight > > the "interesting" breakages? ?A first pass filter would be "breakages we > > know about" vs "breakages we don't." > > > > Then you could build these breakages into a compatibility diagnostics > > package. > > > > Sounds like a fun PyCon sprint to me... > > I don't know if you remember my message on the snakebite mailing list > some times ago on a related topic. > > That's the same process I would like to do to test distutils over > PyPI, by grabbing > packages there and running some commands using their setup.py. > and say "this package is Distutils certified !" > > But this requires some work to make sure there are no security > problems I/O-wise, unless you work with a list of trusted packages (which is > not what we would want if we want to do QA tests) > > And the environment has to be reseted after each run to make sure > there are no problems created by the package. > > Quite a work, but I am in for some brainstroming at Pycon on this topic > if you are interested :)
yep, absolutely! I think I've got the execution and reporting end handled; now we just need to get some virtual environments running so we can do untrusted packages. Hmm, might be worth an AWS account just to do the basic stuff. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
