Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 22:51, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > IIUC, it's not just the EOL issue. There are tons of other things to be > done, and nobody willing to do them - everybody just wants them to be done. I wouldn't say there are tons of things, but yes, even if we decided to punt on the whole

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:34:41 +1100, Mark Hammond a écrit : > > The difference with HG is that the error will not happen at commit > time, but rather at *push* time - after the local repo is already in > a bad state. We could suggest all Windows users configure HG to run > the same hooks locally,

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Hammond
On 3/03/2010 2:11 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: That was also my sentiment. These issues seem to be overestimated, or perceived as a lack of care for the Windows platform. This perception is wrong, I do care as much as others about the Windows platform. That is not my perception. My perception is

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:18:16 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:01, Dirkjan Ochtman > wrote: > >> The risk *seems* reasonably low, people on non-Windows platforms > >> are unlikely to touch those files and they are unlikely to be > >> edited by hand, and if the cost of fi

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Hammond
On 3/03/2010 2:29 AM, Steve Holden wrote: Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:41:45 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman a écrit : For the EOL issue, there is code, it needs testing. Martin Geisler (the primary author so far) and I issued a call for testing on python-dev last week, but without any r

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 01.03.2010 23:44, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: > 2010/3/1 Brett Cannon : >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 09:31, Eric Smith wrote: >>> I've been doing it to remind myself of things that need to be merged, or >>> not. And I believe it used to be used by people doing mass-merges, I'm not >>> sure if

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Fredrik Lundh
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Le Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:29:13 -0500, >> Steve Holden a écrit : >>> IMHO we got in this mess because we didn't have sufficient involvement >>> from Windows platform users during the DVCS evaluation - people saw >>> that

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> We really need to move to a dvcs for development sooner rather than later. > It's been a year since the decision was made. I understand that it will suck > for Windows developers in the short term, but with all the discussion about > the PSF paying for pdo infrastructure work, I think getting us

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Dirkjan's reasoning here is correct. However, we may be at the point > where we've reached diminishing returns on letting this prevent the > changeover - perhaps it is time to force the issue by actually switching > the development process, documenting the use of the hg-eol extension for > anyone

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > It's perceived as not much of an issue, AFAICT, because people feel > that using good editors will save you most of the time, pre-push hooks > will prevent everyone from actually polluting the central repository, > and it would be easy to install pre-commit hooks locally to

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread R. David Murray
I've also asked Brian Curtain to test the extension and he said he would. (He's been doing bug triage, and testing and writing a bunch of windows patches...I think he should be considered for commit access in the not too distant future.) --David ___ pyth

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:41:45 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:17, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > We really need to move to a dvcs for development sooner rather than later. > > It's been a year since the decision was made.  I understand that it will > > suck > > for Windows dev

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 20:36, Brett Cannon wrote: > Dirkjan would know where the patch is. It's in hg.python.org/pymigr (and was previously announced in my status report on python-dev, I think that was on Feb 10). Cheers, Dirkjan ___ python-committers

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 21:18, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > The hold-up will ultimately be the EOL extension and the updated docs > > now that Dirkjan has a patch for sys.mercurial. > > Is that patch published somewhere? I'd like to take a look. > Dirkjan would know where the patch is. -Brett __

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:01, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> The risk *seems* reasonably low, people on non-Windows platforms are >> unlikely to touch those files and they are unlikely to be edited by hand, >> and if the cost of fixing the problem is low it seems reasonable to migrate >> earlier rather

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:52, Michael Foord wrote: >>> What is the risk of going ahead with a broken system? >>> >>> The crux of the matter is that building Python for Windows could break if >>> someone accidentally

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Steve Holden
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:52, Michael Foord wrote: >> What is the risk of going ahead with a broken system? >> >> The crux of the matter is that building Python for Windows could break if >> someone accidentally commits the wrong line-endings for a few specific files >> (V

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Foord
On 02/03/2010 16:41, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:12, Steve Holden wrote: And does it look like a non-issue because you are familiar with the Windows environment or because your imagination can't conceive of why it would be a real problem? Does going ahead make developme

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:52, Michael Foord wrote: > What is the risk of going ahead with a broken system? > > The crux of the matter is that building Python for Windows could break if > someone accidentally commits the wrong line-endings for a few specific files > (Visual Studio project and confi

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:12, Steve Holden wrote: > And does it look like a non-issue because you are familiar with the > Windows environment or because your imagination can't conceive of why it > would be a real problem? Does going ahead make development more > difficult for the Windows platform?

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Steve Holden
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:29:13 -0500, > Steve Holden a écrit : >> IMHO we got in this mess because we didn't have sufficient involvement >> from Windows platform users during the DVCS evaluation - people saw >> that there was some accommodation to Windows, and assumed it woul

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:29:13 -0500, Steve Holden a écrit : > IMHO we got in this mess because we didn't have sufficient involvement > from Windows platform users during the DVCS evaluation - people saw > that there was some accommodation to Windows, and assumed it would be > sufficient for our pur

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Steve Holden
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:41:45 +0100, > Dirkjan Ochtman a écrit : >> For the EOL issue, there is code, it needs testing. Martin Geisler >> (the primary author so far) and I issued a call for testing on >> python-dev last week, but without any response so far. > > The people w

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:41:45 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman a écrit : > > For the EOL issue, there is code, it needs testing. Martin Geisler > (the primary author so far) and I issued a call for testing on > python-dev last week, but without any response so far. The people who have voiced their annoyance

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:17, Barry Warsaw wrote: > We really need to move to a dvcs for development sooner rather than later. > It's been a year since the decision was made.  I understand that it will suck > for Windows developers in the short term, but with all the discussion about > the PSF pay

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 02, 2010, at 08:21 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: >On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:36:42AM +0100, Jesus Cea wrote: >> I can't wait for HG. I have read the main cutprit for the delay is the >> line-ending issue with MS Windows developers. Is there anything else >> holding us back?. > >Note that, if you

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:36:42AM +0100, Jesus Cea wrote: > I can't wait for HG. I have read the main cutprit for the delay is the > line-ending issue with MS Windows developers. Is there anything else > holding us back?. Note that, if you'd just like to use Mercurial for your own convenience whi

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread Steven Bethard
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: >> >> I'm preparing the argparse module for the 2.7 and 3.2 branches. Could >> someone remind me again what the commit process is? Commit to 2.7 and >> merge to 3.2? And do we merge with svnmerge.py or svn merge? There's >>