Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-18 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> Martin, you've changed externals/bsddb-4.4.20 with regards to x64 > builds recently -- have you been able to get things working in your > x64 environments? I changed the project files so that it will use the x64 compilers even if no environment variables were set - the original bsddb files expec

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-18 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> The other query I had was whether or not I should try a later version > of BerkeleyDB -- are we committed to 4.4.20 (or 4.4.x?) for 2.6/3.0 > or is it worth investigating newer versions? Martin/Jesus, any > thoughts on this? As Greg says: 4.5.x should work fine. Importing a new version into th

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 tasks

2008-03-16 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
>>> * Replace Windows API calls with wide versions to support unicode >>> for file names, environment etc. >> +1. This should be broken into separate tasks for each API. > > What are we referring to here? Calling the W versions explicitly and > using wchar_t for everything, or using the TCHAR/TE

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] 2.6 and 3.0 project management

2008-03-16 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> It's just depends on how you see the tracker. It's not just to "bug" > tracker anymore, is it? On other projects I've worked with, we had > separate areas for bugs, features, and tasks. (yes, it's SourceForge.) I > found it easier to keep organized. However, if this is Python's way, I'm > not

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Fwd: 2.6 and 3.0 project management

2008-03-16 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> Not quite. Items don't automatically end up on a hot list; they must > explicitly be put on one. I'm not sure how you'd simulate this via > saved searches. Maybe a combination of a custom keyword *and* a saved > search would help. However this doesn't scale so well, because > keywords show u

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.0 buildbots all red

2008-03-16 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> New sprint idea: getting all (inc. trunk) the buildbots green by Thursday. > Anyone interested? I think the chance to achieve that is close to zero. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Python-Dev] Problems building python2.4 SRPM on RHEL4 x64

2008-03-15 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
Eric B. schrieb: > Hi, > > I appologize if this is not the right place to post this, but searching > through the old archives, I ran across the same issue from 3 years ago, but > I cannot find the resolution to it. > > Currently, I am trying to build the python2.4 SRPM from Python.org on a > C

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-14 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> I reviewed all the compiler options used by db_static.vcproj -- the > only thing I needed to bring over was -DDIAGNOSTIC for debug builds. > Everything else either had no impact and could be safely dropped, or > conflicted with compiler options used by the rest of the python build > (function lev

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows x64 & bsddb 4.4.20 woes

2008-03-14 Thread Martin v. Lšwis
> Removing the dependency on db_static.vcproj and merging the relevant > source code files into _bsddb.vcproj did the trick -- all x64 > bsddb-related tests now pass. The only issue with this approach is > that it locks _bsddb.vcproj into 4.4.20. However, considering that > this approach (i.e. br