Re: Working towards retiring PyXML

2012-07-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 07/26/2012 09:10 AM, David Malcolm wrote: > I did some investigating of how to do this. > > The replacement of xml with PyXML in the stdlib happens in > xml/__init__.py (see e.g. /usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/__init__.py): as > "xml" is imported, it tries to import _xmlplus, and if > _xmlplus.versio

Re: Working towards retiring PyXML

2012-07-25 Thread David Malcolm
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 13:16 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Last week I stumbled upon the fact that the newest python-docutils does not > pass its unittests if PyXML is installed. Looking into the issue brought me > to the conclusion that retiring PyXML may be the best thing to do as rrakus > (the

Working towards retiring PyXML

2012-07-25 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Last week I stumbled upon the fact that the newest python-docutils does not pass its unittests if PyXML is installed. Looking into the issue brought me to the conclusion that retiring PyXML may be the best thing to do as rrakus (the current PyXML maintainer) was interested in doing in February: h

Re: Python 3.3 in Fedora 18

2012-07-25 Thread David Malcolm
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 12:45 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:30:13PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > dmalcolm: that should be fine. how many packages are we > > talking about? > > and how long should it take? > > about 30 iirc > > > Just an FYI: 100 packages is a bette