Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Matthias Klose
On 13.09.2009 18:07, Gregory P. Smith wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: On 06.04.2009 00:33, Matthias Klose wrote: While looking at the diffs between the 261 release tags and the 26 branch, I noticed many items in Misc/NEWS appearing in the 2.6.1 or even 2.6 sectio

Re: [python-committers] Adding a hidden field to BaseException going to break the ABI?

2009-09-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 13:30, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2009/9/13 Brett Cannon : >> issue6844 wants to stop a warning from being raised when someone >> accesses a 'message' attribute on an exception when it is set by the >> user (currently any usage of the 'message' attribute raises a >> warning

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le dimanche 13 septembre 2009 à 13:27 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit : > > Right, which is why only the first line would be used. All the other > usual detail can be there, just do it on another line. But if that line is longer than 80 characters, your $EDITOR may split it automatically and it'll br

Re: [python-committers] Adding a hidden field to BaseException going to break the ABI?

2009-09-13 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/9/13 Brett Cannon : > issue6844 wants to stop a warning from being raised when someone > accesses a 'message' attribute on an exception when it is set by the > user (currently any usage of the 'message' attribute raises a > warning). To do this properly is going to require some state flag on >

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 13:26, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 13 septembre 2009 à 13:15 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit : >> >> Or simply take the first line of each commit? I mean why do we enter >> it twice? If we have a commit that is unimportant we could come up >> with some convention to mak

[python-committers] Adding a hidden field to BaseException going to break the ABI?

2009-09-13 Thread Brett Cannon
issue6844 wants to stop a warning from being raised when someone accesses a 'message' attribute on an exception when it is set by the user (currently any usage of the 'message' attribute raises a warning). To do this properly is going to require some state flag on BaseException's struct. But I don'

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 at 13:15, Brett Cannon wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:07, Gregory P. Smith wrote: Thanks. ??One reason this happens is that our NEWS file is very difficult to navigate. ??svnmerge rarely works on it because the context is often different in the branch file but figuring ou

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le dimanche 13 septembre 2009 à 13:15 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit : > > Or simply take the first line of each commit? I mean why do we enter > it twice? If we have a commit that is unimportant we could come up > with some convention to make it as such or simply have the comment > start with a blan

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:07, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >> On 06.04.2009 00:33, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> >>> While looking at the diffs between the 261 release tags and the 26 branch, >>> I >>> noticed many items in Misc/NEWS appearing in t

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 06.04.2009 00:33, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >> While looking at the diffs between the 261 release tags and the 26 branch, >> I >> noticed many items in Misc/NEWS appearing in the 2.6.1 or even 2.6 >> sections. >> I moved all of these to 2.

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Matthias Klose
On 06.04.2009 00:33, Matthias Klose wrote: While looking at the diffs between the 261 release tags and the 26 branch, I noticed many items in Misc/NEWS appearing in the 2.6.1 or even 2.6 sections. I moved all of these to 2.6.2, after checking some of them, and found all of the checked ones be bac