Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:37:10PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:34:12PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > > The negative effect for the use

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:34:12PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > The negative effect for the users is that you can't upgrade python > > > while wxgtk-python is install

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-20 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > The negative effect for the users is that you can't upgrade python > > while wxgtk-python is installed so you can't try out the > > latest-and-greatest python in the meanti

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > The negative effect for the users is that you can't upgrade python > while wxgtk-python is installed so you can't try out the > latest-and-greatest python in the meantime. This is the issue at > hand. Sure you can:

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:22:43AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: | On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:33:26AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: | > Now, I could do the dependency on python (>= 2.2), python (<<2.3) thing. | > But what would that gain me or users? I see no benefit there, other than | > people

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:47:48AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > There is an alternative... only support one version of python... and be > stuck at python 2.1 until everything uses it, or lose things like zope > etc. Alternatively the python developers could try to keep backwards compatibility :-

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 02:04:52AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* > > > packages > > > every time python* is mentioned? :P > > > > Actually I'm more reminded of the perl* packages and

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Joey Hess writes: > Josip Rodin wrote: > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* packages > > every time python* is mentioned? :P > > Actually I'm more reminded of the perl* packages and the complete mess > that followed. And I keep expecting to see the same set of pro

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-08 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* packages > every time python* is mentioned? :P Actually I'm more reminded of the perl* packages and the complete mess that followed. And I keep expecting to see the same set of problems affect python. -- see

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-07 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i agree, we have a great support for Python. thanks to those who make it possible. cavok On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:47:48AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: ... > > Personally I was going to post "nice job everyone... the Python Policy > looks like it is working". There are still a few niggly thing

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 02:17, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:33:26AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* > > > > packages every time python* is mentioned? :P > > > > > hmmm.. just curious... why? > > > > The short

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:33:26AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* > > > packages every time python* is mentioned? :P > > > hmmm.. just curious... why? > > The short of it: he's joking. Note the smiley. Even though package > n

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-06 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:18:53AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* > packages every time python* is mentioned? :P On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > hmmm.. just curious... why? The short of it: he's j

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-06 Thread Domenico Andreoli
hmmm.. just curious... why? On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:18:53AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Last weekend, python 2.3 was released. > > With the next python2.3 upload, python2.3 becomes the default python > > version. > > Am I the

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Last weekend, python 2.3 was released. > With the next python2.3 upload, python2.3 becomes the default python > version. Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* packages every time python* is mentioned? :P

python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-05 Thread Matthias Klose
Last weekend, python 2.3 was released. For an overview see http://python.org/2.3/highlights.html With the next python2.3 upload, python2.3 becomes the default python version. Some packages become uninstallable until they are converted to the new version. In this time you should not update