Re: [Python-Dev] Enum Eccentricities

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Zero Piraeus wrote: > I may be misunderstanding the use case given in the issue, > To clarify the use case, since it is my bug, this is so that the enum values are always available for comparison. The exact use case is in Django templates where a value comes fro

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] Is is worth disentangling distutils?

2012-12-15 Thread Chris Lambacher
You can already cross compile with distutils, though it is not exactly easy: http://pyvideo.org/video/682/cross-compiling-python-c-extensions-for-embedde -Chris On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Antonio Cavallo wrote: > It is not that complex... What's ahead is even more complex. > > > > > > Len

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I didn't read the entire bug, but it mentioned something about storing > datetimes in databases. Do databases support nanosecond precision? > MS SQL Server 2008 R2 has the datetime2 data type which supports 100 nanosecond (.1 microsecond

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Lambacher
Nick Coghlan gmail.com> writes: > > The Python community covers a broad spectrum of use cases, and I > suspect that's one of the big reasons packaging can get so contentious > - the goals end up being in direct conflict. Currently, I've > identified at least half a dozen significant communities

Re: [Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:15:15PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Martin> In any case, the patch being contributed uses SCons. If people > Martin> think this is unmaintainable, this is a reason to reject the > Martin> patch. > > Could SCons replace distutils? If SCons replaced Di

Re: [Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:42:48PM +0100, David Boddie wrote: > On Thu Nov 9 07:45:30 CET 2006, Anthony Baxter wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 November 2006 16:30, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > > Patch #841454 takes a stab at cross-compilation > > > (for MingW32 on a Linux system, in this case), > > > an

Re: [Python-Dev] Automated Python testing (was Re: status of development documentation)

2005-12-28 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:54:32PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > This really helps at Zope Corp. One downside is that we seem unable > to get an in-house Windows buildbot slave to work reliably, and so far > don't even know whether that's because of Windows, the buildbot code, > or flakiness in our i

Re: [Python-Dev] Sharing expat instances

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Lambacher
Py2exe manages to load .pyd files and dlls from zip. Apparently they have written an alternate dll loader that does not need the file to be on the file system. This is used for single file apps. I don't know if it is possible to write a portable Unix equivalent for .so files. -Chris P.S. I th

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

2005-07-28 Thread Chris Lambacher
I theory Subversion should allow you to be more secure. CVS has a very limited concept of security and for the most part you need to rely on SSH. Subversion makes use of Apache as one of its server options. Any authentication method you can use in Apache 2 you can use for Subversion. Once Apache