Re: Python 3 binaries

2013-09-02 Thread Brandon Invergo
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: My understanding was that users (really: Python developers) would expect to get a ‘python3’ binary when they install the latest, and a ‘python’ binary otherwise. It depends. I've grown used to having python(-python3) and python2 binaries in

Re: New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options

2013-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org skribis: I’m trying to handle the “last-month” and the “first-month” cases. I’d like to use ‘profile-numbers’* to construct an alist of generations and their creation dates. What can I use to get the creation date of a file? I can’t find anything in

Re: Goals for 0.4

2013-09-02 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 09/02/2013 09:38 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: That is, try to install something that’s available on hydra.gnu.org, and check that it downloads correctly, and prints “Please consider upgrading Guile to get proper progress report”. It does exactly that. Cyril.

Optimizing profile creation

2013-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
At the GHM, Andreas rightfully noted that building a profile with many files, as is the case when TeX Live is installed, can take quite a bit of time; and every time a package is installed/removed/upgraded, you pay that price again since the profile is built from scratch. Creating a profile