BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

2002-08-14 Thread Mr Abdelhadi Benzaghou
ATTN: CEO/PRESIDENT May I indulge your trust and confidence as I introduce myself as well as intimating you of this business proposal. I am Mr Abdelhadi Benzaghou the Algeria OPEC Governor (Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries). Through the sale of our allocated oil quota in OPEC, I was a

standard Python build for Debian distributions

2002-08-14 Thread Damon Fasching
Hi, I've noticed that the python executable which I get from Debian is about a third the size of what I get if I download the tarball from python.org and install myself, about 800KB vs 2.3KB, and that some standard (and extremely useful) packages seem to missing. On the debian side I use woody-

Re: standard Python build for Debian distributions

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Aug 14, Damon Fasching wrote: > Are there any plans to include packages like distutils in the > standard Debian distribution? distutils is in the python-dev package; there are other python-* packages with various other components of the "batteries included" Python distribution. Chris -- Chri

Re: standard Python build for Debian distributions

2002-08-14 Thread Florent Rougon
Damon Fasching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hi, To complete Chris's answer, if you want to know which Debian binary packages to install in order to get the same things as if you had installed from the source, you may want to something like: grep-available -enF Source -s Package '^python2\

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Aug 14, Laura Creighton wrote: > The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is > collaborating with the Python developers to produce Python-in-a-Tie, > a business-targetted release of Python. This is a 'Sumo-Release', > which will include other useful Python libraries and progra

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
> Now, if 2.3 won't be stable until well into next year (as opposed to > the schedule in PEP 283), then we may want to target 2.2.x as our > default version. Which version of PEP 283 are you referring to? It once had us release the final version around the end of August. But the current version

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:54:31PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Aug 14, Laura Creighton wrote: > > The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is > > collaborating with the Python developers to produce Python-in-a-Tie, > > a business-targetted release of Python. This is a 'Sumo

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Laura Creighton
> BTW: is the PIAT consortium going to offer any DSFG free software? > > Jim Penny It is the PIT-SIG, not consortium, which is part of the Python Business Forum. You can read our bylaws here: www.python-in-business.org/about/bylaws (if you care to). We didn't come together for the Purpose

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:54:31PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Aug 14, Laura Creighton wrote: [...] > One final point. We will almost definitely not switch the default > python in sid (current unstable), until there is talk that

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: > > Laura: (and Guido et al.) > > Debian plans to support at least Python 2.2 and 2.3 in the next > > release (sarge); [...] > One final point. We will almost definitely not switch the default > python in sid (current unstable), until ther