Re: [Python-Dev] Maintaining old releases

2008-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
For example, let's project dates for closing 2.6 and 3.0 now, and add them to PEP 361. My view is that they should be closed when 2.7 and 3.1 are released. Following another informal policy, we were going for an 18 months release cycle at some time (2.6 clearly took longer), which would mean

Re: [Python-Dev] Maintaining old releases

2008-08-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-08-14 08:43, Martin v. Löwis wrote: For example, let's project dates for closing 2.6 and 3.0 now, and add them to PEP 361. My view is that they should be closed when 2.7 and 3.1 are released. Since we don't have a fixed release cycle, making the 2.(n-1) maintenance time frame depend

Re: [Python-Dev] pybsddb 4.7.3pre1: Compatibility with Python 3.0

2008-08-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
Jesus Cea wrote: I plan to release pybsddb 4.7.3 in mid-september, ready to be delivered bundled in Python 2.6/3.0 (to be released early in october). Jesus, I think your target date is off by a month - it may be better to try and land an initial cut of this in Python SVN for beta 3 (August

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

2008-08-14 Thread Olemis Lang
The goal should be to produce something like a unittest-ng, distribute it via the Cheeseshop, and gather consensus around it for possible inclusion in Python 2.7/3.1. IMO test support in Python needs some enhancements. I also think there are great libraries available today in

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

2008-08-14 Thread Fred Drake
On Aug 14, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Olemis Lang wrote: What I do think is that we need a mail list (or equivalent) dedicated to discuss such things... because (again IMO) python-dev might not be It's not, but this list is the right place: http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python -Fred

[Python-Dev] uuid test fails

2008-08-14 Thread Matt Giuca
Hi, I thought I'd bring this up on both the tracker and mailing list, since it's important. It seems the test suite breaks as of r65661. I've posted details to the bug tracker and a patch which fixes the module in question (uuid.py). http://bugs.python.org/issue3552 Cheers Matt

[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP: Frequently-requested additional features for the `unittest` module

2008-08-14 Thread Olemis Lang
Abstract This PEP proposes frequently-requested additions to the standard library `unittest` module that are natural extensions of its existing functionality. I had not seen this proposal... I will post a few comments. Motivation == The

[Python-Dev] Looking for an up-to-date address for john.benediktsson

2008-08-14 Thread Brett Cannon
I was going through our list of email addreses for committers and realized that I don't have an address for john.benediktsson that works; his ewtllc.com address is bouncing. Anyone have an up-to-date one? -Brett ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] PQM?

2008-08-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
Christian Heimes wrote: Perhaps we could adopt a release plan similar to Ubuntu. They have releases with cool, new and bleeding edge stuff followed by a release that focuses on stability and long term support. Python 2.6 and especially 3.0 are releases with new features. What do you think

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for an up-to-date address for john.benediktsson

2008-08-14 Thread VanL
Brett Cannon wrote: I was going through our list of email addreses for committers and realized that I don't have an address for john.benediktsson that works; his ewtllc.com address is bouncing. Anyone have an up-to-date one? Replied privately. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Maintaining old releases

2008-08-14 Thread Aahz
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 2008-08-14 08:43, Martin v. L?wis wrote: For example, let's project dates for closing 2.6 and 3.0 now, and add them to PEP 361. My view is that they should be closed when 2.7 and 3.1 are released. Since we don't have a fixed release cycle, making