On 06/10/17 18:47, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
>> Debian solves the problem of installing user components in the system
>> path creating a dist-libraries along the site-libraries path in the
>> python module folder.
>
> Uh, yeah. Pretty much universal. Except you left out the sort of
> deta
Yo Daniele!
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 18:37:53 -0600
Daniele Nicolodi via devel wrote:
> The reason is that a python interpreter cannot assume that any other
> path, outside the one in which it has been installed belongs to him.
Uh, no. In fact, nothing outside of the base python 'belongs' to
the ins
On 06/10/17 17:43, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> Yo Daniele!
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 16:57:13 -0600
> Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>
What if I want to have 2.7.1 and 2.7.2, for example?
>>>
>>> Gentoo can easily do that as well. Pretty common on gentoo.
>>
>> How? It is clearly not possi
Yo Daniele!
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 16:57:13 -0600
Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> >> What if I want to have 2.7.1 and 2.7.2, for example?
> >
> > Gentoo can easily do that as well. Pretty common on gentoo.
>
> How? It is clearly not possible with the scheme you described before.
Not gonna worry ab
On 10/6/17 4:21 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Daniele!
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 15:59:05 -0600
> Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>
>> On 10/6/17 1:46 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
>>> Yo Daniele!
>>>
>>> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 23:39:51 -0600
>>> Daniele Nicolodi via devel wrote:
>>>
The reason
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Hal Murray wrote:
> >> Warnings are easily lost in the noise. So either create the
> >> directory or treat it as an error and bail.
>
> > There are two issues with just "creating the directory":
> > 1) There's no guarantee that Python will actually use it.
> > 2) Creating the
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> Fred Wright writes:
> >Sorry for the lateness, but I realized that the current code still has a
> >bug (as well as a couple of deficiencies of a more-or-less cosmetic
> >nature). It's currently checking sys.path in the *running* Python, but i
Yo Daniele!
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 23:39:51 -0600
Daniele Nicolodi via devel wrote:
> The reason why Python does not
> include /usr/local folders in his search path by default is: what if
> you want to install an alternative Pythion _interpreter_ there?
Uh, no. Each interpreter makes it's own pat
Yo Eric!
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
"Eric S. Raymond via devel" wrote:
> Fred, your timing is awful and you shouldn't have submitted multiple
> changes as a single MR. Three days ago I might have taken a single,
> simple change that fixed the one bug. Now I can't justify doing th
On 10/06/2017 10:15 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
This is why the minimal-change alternative is worth considering at this
point in our release cycle. It means you don't have to do that research
project.
Done, functions that can be simply changed to assertAlmostEqual have
been, problematic one
On 06/10/17 07:32, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> Daniele, you weren't ignored. I read and processed what you said,
> but it's way too late in the cycle to redo the build around a technique
> (virtual environments) that the senior devs don't have experience with.
I don't understand this state
Ian Bruene via devel :
> I changed ntp_to_posix back to what it should be, and fixed what tests I can
> fix immediately.
Good.
> >A question for you to ponder: should you replace all assertEqual calls
> >or only those on which we have seen failures? If the latter, what
> >else do you need to do?
On 10/06/2017 06:52 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
In fact, all this test code is subtly wrong, and it is just blind luck
nothing went sproing sooner. Any of those assertions could have gone
toes-up at any time. The tests in posixize() are wrong, too.
The problem here is that float representation
Fred Wright writes:
>Sorry for the lateness, but I realized that the current code still has a
>bug (as well as a couple of deficiencies of a more-or-less cosmetic
>nature). It's currently checking sys.path in the *running* Python, but it
>needs to be checking it in the *target* Python. Specifying
This is a training assignment for Ian Bruene. I'm describing the
background in public because this is an instance of a generic error
other programmers are likely to run into, and all need to guard
against it.
As it presently exists, the pylib/packet.py function def
ntp_to_posix(t) is incorrect.
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