Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
l...@rmi.net writes: FWIW, after rewriting Programming Python for 3.1, 3.x still feels a lot like a beta to me, almost 2 years after its release. Email, of course, is a big wart. But guess what? Python 2's email module doesn't actually work! Sure, the program runs most of the time, but

[Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Thorne
Steve Holden Wrote: We are also attempting to enable tax-deductible fund raising to increase the likelihood of David's finding support. Perhaps we need to think about a broader campaign to increase the quality of the python 3 libraries. I find it very annoying that the #python IRC group still

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Stephen Thorne step...@thorne.id.au wrote: We are also attempting to enable tax-deductible fund raising to increase the likelihood of David's finding support. Perhaps we need to think about a broader campaign to increase the quality of the python 3 libraries. I

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:19:37 pm Jesse Noller wrote: Awesome. I plan on wasting as much money on the useless effort of moving python 3 forward as humanly possible. I'm sorry, but if that's sarcasm, it's far too subtle for me :( -- Steven D'Aprano

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:44, anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Stephen Thorne step...@thorne.id.au wrote: We are also attempting to enable tax-deductible fund raising to increase the likelihood of David's finding support. Perhaps we need to think

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread lutz
Replying en masse to save bandwidth here... Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org writes: We know it, we have extensively discussed how to fix it, we have IMO a good design, and we even have someone willing and able to tackle the problem. We need to find a sufficient source of funding to enable him

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Foord
On 18/06/2010 16:09, l...@rmi.net wrote: Replying en masse to save bandwidth here... Barry Warsawba...@python.org writes: We know it, we have extensively discussed how to fix it, we have IMO a good design, and we even have someone willing and able to tackle the problem. We need to find a

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2010-06-18 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-06-11 - 2010-06-18) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 2777 open (+43) / 18070 closed (+12) / 20847 total (+55) Open issues with patches: 1122

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Walter Dörwald
On 18.06.10 17:04, Brian Curtin wrote: [...] 2. no code coverage (test/user story/rfc/pep) If you know of a way to incorporate code coverage tools and metrics into the current process, I believe a number of people would be interested. There currently exists some coverage tool that

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread lutz
Python 3.0 was *declared* to be an experimental release, and by most standards 3.1 (in terms of the core language and functionality) was a solid release. Any reasonable expectation about Python 3 adoption predicted that it would take years, and would include going through a phase of

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Foord
On 18/06/2010 18:22, l...@rmi.net wrote: Python 3.0 was *declared* to be an experimental release, and by most standards 3.1 (in terms of the core language and functionality) was a solid release. Any reasonable expectation about Python 3 adoption predicted that it would take years, and would

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Janssen
Giampaolo Rodolà g.rod...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/17 Bill Janssen jans...@parc.com: There's a related meta-issue having to do with antique protocols. Can I know what meta-issue are you talking about exactly? Giampaolo, I believe that you and I have already discussed this on one of the

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/6/18 Bill Janssen jans...@parc.com: Giampaolo Rodolà g.rod...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/17 Bill Janssen jans...@parc.com: There's a related meta-issue having to do with antique protocols. Can I know what meta-issue are you talking about exactly? Giampaolo, I believe that you and I

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread lutz
I wasn't calling Python 3 a turd. I was trying to show the strangeness of the logic behind your rationalization. And failing badly... (maybe I should have used tar ball?) What I'm suggesting is that extreme caution be exercised from this point forward with all things 3.X-related. Whether you

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread P.J. Eby
At 05:22 PM 6/18/2010 +, l...@rmi.net wrote: So here it is: The prevailing view is that 3.X developers hoisted things on users that they did not fully work through themselves. Unicode is prime among these: for all the talk here about how 2.X was broken in this regard, the implications of

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/18/2010 12:32 PM, Walter Dörwald wrote: http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ I am a bit puzzled as to the meaning of the gray/red/green bars since the correlation between coverage % and bars is not very high. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 05:22 PM 6/18/2010 +, l...@rmi.net wrote: So here it is: The prevailing view is that 3.X developers hoisted things on users that they did not fully work through themselves.  Unicode is prime among these: for all

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 13:53, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 6/18/2010 12:32 PM, Walter Dörwald wrote:    http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ I am a bit puzzled as to the meaning of the gray/red/green bars since the correlation between coverage % and bars is not very high. Gray is

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Foord
On 18/06/2010 19:52, l...@rmi.net wrote: I wasn't calling Python 3 a turd. I was trying to show the strangeness of the logic behind your rationalization. And failing badly... (maybe I should have used tar ball?) I didn't make myself clear. The expected disappointment I was referring to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/18/2010 10:24 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: http://jessenoller.com/2010/05/20/announcing-python-sprint-sponsorship/ This does not specify what expenses you are thinking of covering. Food is the most obvious. Anyway, this got me to think about offering my house at a site for US east coast

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Neil Hodgson
Michael Foord: Python 3.0 was *declared* to be an experimental release, and by most standards 3.1 (in terms of the core language and functionality) was a solid release. That looks to me like an after-the-event rationalization. The release note for Python 3.0 (and the What's new) gives no

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-18 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 6/18/2010 10:24 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: http://jessenoller.com/2010/05/20/announcing-python-sprint-sponsorship/ This does not specify what expenses you are thinking of covering. Food is the most obvious. Anyway, this

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Jun 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Michael Foord wrote: I'm still baffled as to how a bug in the cgi module (along with the acknowledged email problems) is such a big deal. Was it reported and then languished in the bug tracker? That would be bad ion its own but if it was only recently

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Foord
On 18/06/2010 23:51, Raymond Hettinger wrote: On Jun 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Michael Foord wrote: I'm still baffled as to how a bug in the cgi module (along with the acknowledged email problems) is such a big deal. Was it reported and then languished in the bug tracker? That would be bad

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/18/2010 6:51 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: There has been a disappointing lack of bug reports across the board for 3.x. Here is one from this week involving the interaction of array and bytearray. It needs a comment from someone who can understand the C-API based patch, which is beyond