[Python-Dev] 2.7 and 3.2 release schedules

2009-11-16 Thread Benjamin Peterson
After more thought, I think that separating the 2.7 and 3.2 releases is not as big of an issue as I once thought. Therefore, I'd like to adopt the schedule I posted a few weeks back for 2.7 only. This only means some other lucky victi... I mean volunteer can do 3.2. :) -- Regards, Benjamin _

Re: [Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils

2009-11-16 Thread David Malcolm
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:42 +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Tarek Ziadé gmail.com> writes: > > > > This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped > > with python but python-devel. (like Fedora) > > This practice is stupid anyway, because it means you have to install > python-

[Python-Dev] Static analysis of CPython using coccinelle/spatch

2009-11-16 Thread David Malcolm
Has anyone else looked at using Coccinelle/spatch[1] on CPython source code? It's a GPL-licensed tool for matching semantic patterns in C source code. It's been used on the Linux kernel for detecting and fixing problems, and for autogenerating patches when refactoring (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/im

Re: [Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils

2009-11-16 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Do we really want to change distutils to solve a problem of a third > party packaging system when the problem was created by the very same > third party in the first place? In other words: Should you spend your > precious develo

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Moore
2009/11/16 Tres Seaver : >> Which is bizarre, since Paul belongs to the group of people you say >> you care most about - i.e., those people browsing the index and >> looking for packages.  The *consumers* of the comments, in other words. > > I agree with Martin that anonymous votes, like anonymous

Re: [Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils

2009-11-16 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:27:29PM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: > > [..] > >> Do we really want to change distutils to solve a problem of a third > >> party packaging

Re: [Python-Dev] Too many Python accounts

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Foord
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Michael Foord wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: Would it be possible to detect a change of provider and then offer the option to migrate the account to the new provider (so long as it does not conflict with another account)? That would be possible - but

Re: [Python-Dev] buildtime vs runtime in Distutils

2009-11-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:31:45PM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: > Antoine Pitrou schrieb: > > Tarek Ziadé gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped > >> with python but python-devel. (like Fedora) > > > > This practice is stupid anyway, becaus

Re: [Python-Dev] Too many Python accounts

2009-11-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Michael Foord wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> Would it be possible to detect a change of provider and then offer the >>> option to migrate the account to the new provider (so long as it does >>> not conflict with another account)? >>> >> >> That would be possible - but again complicate the

Re: [Python-Dev] Too many Python accounts

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Foord
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Would it be possible to detect a change of provider and then offer the option to migrate the account to the new provider (so long as it does not conflict with another account)? That would be possible - but again complicate the UI. Why? You should only need to pr

Re: [Python-Dev] Too many Python accounts

2009-11-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Would it be possible to detect a change of provider and then offer the > option to migrate the account to the new provider (so long as it does > not conflict with another account)? That would be possible - but again complicate the UI. Regards, Martin

Re: [Python-Dev] Too many Python accounts

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Foord
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Even not having provider changes supported would still allow me to use my openid with PyPI which would be great. The only problem with changing provider that I can see is when the provider a user changes to would then be a duplicate - in which case I think just refusing to

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Arc Riley wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Having a "Repository-URL", "Repository-Browse-URL" and a >> "Bug-Tracker-URL" field in PyPI would be a lot more usefule then >> comments and ratings. >> > > +1 You mean in the Metadata ? We are currenty working on adding fields in th