Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> virtualenv uses python-support, so to get it to work under 2.7, you'd > have to change python-support, which means everything else using > python-support would have to be 2.7 compatible. > > > Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but this sounds like an impossibly > big task for doing properly

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Thomas, On Oct 03, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Thomas Waldmann wrote: >I guess I could do that, although I'ld prefer some experienced DD or >developer using debian would do it (I am using ubuntu on my desktops / >development machines, but I could create some VM, of course). Not to discourage you worki

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-03 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Thomas (2011.10.03_12:15:04_+0200) > > > It looks like python2.7 is easily backporteable to squeeze. > Good news! :) Of course most other upstreams that want their code to run on an existing server install, with minimal hassle, support Python 2.6 or even 2.5. The enterprise distributions move *

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Hi Miguel, Scott, > > It looks like python2.7 is easily backporteable to squeeze. Good news! :) > > You can take a look at [1]. I rebuilt it without modifications but it > > probably needs some testing. I'll test it with virtualenv later. > > Are you aware that preparing a backport is not an

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, October 02, 2011 09:38:37 PM Miguel Landaeta wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Thomas Waldmann wrote: > > So, is anybody working on putting python2.7 into squeeze-backports or do > > I need to work on that myself? (I don't have much experience with debian > > packaging / policy,

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-02 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Thomas Waldmann wrote: > So, is anybody working on putting python2.7 into squeeze-backports or do > I need to work on that myself? (I don't have much experience with debian > packaging / policy, so I could use my time more productively on > developping moin - but if

Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-01 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Hi, I am new to this list (but I have skimmed last few months of the archive), so excuse me if I have missed some discussion. I am one of the core devs of MoinMoin Wiki and we currently require python 2.6 for MoinMoin 2.0 (alpha). There are some reasons why we would maybe like to require 2.7: *