Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.4 test_locale fails?

2005-02-27 Thread Brett C.
Jim Correia wrote: (New to the list, couldn't find the answer in the archives...) I'm just getting around to building and installing Python 2.4 on 10.3.8. After building and running the tests, test_locale fails. (If I tweak the test to not abort after the first failure I see that it fails for the d

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] fink vs DarwinPorts?

2005-02-04 Thread Brett C.
Russell E. Owen wrote: I've seen a lot of discussion lately about fink and darwinports and I'm wondering if folks who have experience with either can comment on their relative merits? I personally have run Fink in the past multiple times and always end up deleting it in the end. DarwinPorts, o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How badly is _locale broken?

2004-12-31 Thread Brett C.
sion that Apple fixes CF. X is obviously greater than 3, but I don't think it will be much greater. It's been broken for this long, and Brett C. said he doesn't use the locale module, so it may be too much effort for too little reward. I have figured out the mapping of attrib

[Pythonmac-SIG] How badly is _locale broken?

2004-12-28 Thread Brett C.
I am planning to attempt to fix the _locale module (which 'locale' itself imports and uses) for OS X. As of this exact moment I am planning just fixing localeconv (thanks to CFNumberFormatter and setlocale still at least storing the supposed locale, even if it does ignore it), but I realized ot