Re: [Python-3000] bsddb ownership, buffer protocol and 3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Raymond Hettinger
From: "Brett Cannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I appreciate you want to maintain the code, Jesus, but that still makes you the single point of failure for the code. If you decide you don't want to deal with it, or are on vacation when the code breaks just before a release, it is quite possible we are s

Re: [Python-3000] bsddb ownership, buffer protocol and 3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > I acknowledge that some people would like to remove bsddb from the > standard lib, arguing it is a maintenance nightmare. I consider, then, > that the right thing to do would be to (fully) delegate this code to me, > a g

Re: [Python-3000] bsddb ownership, buffer protocol and 3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody is able to compile current bsddb in 3.0 svn?. May I overwrite > current version with my own one, updated with your patches (except the > buffer code; I rather prefer to delay that)?. > Yes, feel free to replace it w

Re: [Python-3000] bsddb ownership, buffer protocol and 3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 19, 2008, at 4:00 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: I acknowledge that some people would like to remove bsddb from the standard lib, arguing it is a maintenance nightmare. I consider, then, that the right thing to do would be to (fully) delegate this code

[Python-3000] bsddb ownership, buffer protocol and 3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm actively working porting current bsddb code to python 3.0. The work is going fine. Current code compiles in both Python 2.[3-6] and 3.0. I have some issues with module initialization: """ [EMAIL PROTECTED] bsddb3]$ python3.0 Python 3.0b2 (r30b2:6