Re: Maintaining Python 1.5

2002-09-11 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not mind passing the maintainership, but I do mind keeping it in > unstable. Debian is not a museum for old python versions. What hinders > you to install the python1.5 packages from woody in unstable? apt > tagging is your frie

Re: Make python2.2 the python default

2002-08-25 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any reason to keep 2.1 ? Debian is used as a development system for portable apps. Many developers need to test their software works with Python 2.1.

Re: Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2

2002-05-22 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 23 May 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Baarda) wrote: > if I understand it, foo is not really a 'binary' but an 'executable > script'... (which means it can be Python version independant). Yep. > This situation is identical to the existing idle package. It's worth looking > at how it ha

Re: Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2

2002-05-22 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, thats a problem. There is no way out for this; you'd have to > have two binaries. Yes, I know I'll have to have two binaries. > Provide library packages: python2.1-foo, python2.2-foo. > Provide *one* binary package for the

Re: Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2

2002-05-22 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > c) python-foo: /usr/bin/foo binary with #!/usr/bin/python > > > > >Depends: python2.1-foo | python2.2-foo ^ that's an or sign, right > > python2.1, python2.2, python2.2-foo and pyt

Re: Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2

2002-05-22 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:09:11PM -0000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > > a) python2.1-foo: python foo.py module for 2.1 > Depends: python2.1 > > > > b) python2.2-foo: python foo.py module for 2.2 &g

Re: Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2

2002-05-22 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a package called python-central which allows version-independent > packages. > http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ > Precondition: you have a "pure" pyhthon module, no C-compiled Extension. Sorry, the situa

Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2

2002-05-22 Thread Moshe Zadka
[please CC me, I'm not on the list] Hypothetical situation: Source package: contains foo.py (python module, works with every python version under the sun) and foo (a script whose first line is "import foo"). I want to properly support people who want 2.1 and 2.2. There are several audiences here:

Re: RFC: python-base, debconf and py/pyc files

2001-03-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do think we need somewhere where all the .pyc's are "registered", > > "locate .pyc"; or maybe locate .py, .pyc, and .pyo files, then > reconcile the three lists. I didn't say the file system isn't a good such place. I just said we

Re: RFC: python-base, debconf and py/pyc files

2001-03-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > currently, our Python packages mostly ship .py files and compile them into > ..pyc files at run time in order to save space in the debs. > > There's no reason, though, to keep the .py files on machines that only > deploy software[

Re: 4Suite in Debian ?

2001-02-28 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 28 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jérôme Marant) wrote: > Would you think great to have 4Suite (http://www.4suite.org) in Debian ? Yes. -- "I'll be ex-DPL soon anyway so I'm|LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? looking for someplace else to grab power."|YODA: No...no... no. Quicker,

Re: Python 2.0 in Debian (was: Re: [Python-Dev] PEPS, version control, release intervals)

2001-02-16 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:14:17 +0100, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So... if you link glibc with files compiled by a NON-GNU compiler, the > resulting binary *has to be* glibc ? That's, well, fucked, if you pardon my > french. But it's not my code, so all I can do is sigh ;-P Thomas,

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

2001-02-07 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:39:11 -0500, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The binaries should be called python1.5 and python2.0, and python > should be a symlink to whatever is the default one. No they shouldn't. Joey Hess wrote to debian-python about the problems such a scheme caused when

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

2001-02-06 Thread Moshe Zadka
/python1.5 are going to do about it. I'm prepared to adopt htmlgen and python-imaging to convert them if it's needed. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses! Fingerprint: 4BD1 7705 EEC0 260A 7F21 4817 C7FC A636 46D0 1BD6

Dependencies on Python

2001-02-02 Thread Moshe Zadka
Pycmail depends: on python, python-base, while grc depends on python Which is correct? -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses! Fingerprint: 4BD1 7705 EEC0 260A 7F21 4817 C7FC A636 46D0 1BD6

Sponsorship for my package: PMS

2001-01-28 Thread Moshe Zadka
o is interested in Python. I have not ITPed yet. Please contact me! -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses! Fingerprint: 4BD1 7705 EEC0 260A 7F21 4817 C7FC A636 46D0 1BD6

Re: Proposal: we don't need multiple installs

2001-01-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Claudemir Todo Bom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean, use the non-free archive only to solve license compatibility It can't. See the KDE/Qt issue. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)

2001-01-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
be fixed. So, as a Perl basher , I think Python will not cause the same problems that Perl did. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)

2001-01-13 Thread Moshe Zadka
ng list, I > don't need to see it again... You can setup Mail-Followup-To, or X-No-Cc, or something to let us know, you know (Though PMS doesn't support that yet, I do try to compensate by hand...) -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)

2001-01-11 Thread Moshe Zadka
are actually marshalled code objects (see the Python marshal module). They're not documented on purpose: they change. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)

2001-01-11 Thread Moshe Zadka
rily: the API version doesn't change as often as the Python version. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python 2.0

2001-01-11 Thread Moshe Zadka
cular 2.1 (which should be out in a few weeks) will probably break it too. Better install .pyc only in version specific directories! -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

Re: Debian package

2000-11-27 Thread Moshe Zadka
d debian legal on this. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez

Key Signing at Python Conference?

2000-11-26 Thread Moshe Zadka
Hi there! I wonder if someone wants to organize a key-signing at IPC9 (http://www.python9.com)? Please answer especially if you can sign keys: having a key signing fest without someone with a trusted key is a bit pointless... -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advoga

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-16 Thread Moshe Zadka
s part of a particular application should go under /usr/lib/ > somewhere. (That's what I did for 'subterfugue'.) > > Does that make sense? I recommend to everyone to take a look at the Python-Dev archives, where Guido, Jeremy and I are talking about this very issue. -- Mo

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-15 Thread Moshe Zadka
ution for long-term coexistence, not for just > a transition from one major version to the next. It's probably > overkill for the current situation... Oh, well, maybe you're right. I wonder why the official Debian python-packages maintainer hasn't commented... -- Moshe Zadka &

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-15 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 15 Nov 2000, Rob Tillotson wrote: > Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This isn't true. Python 1.5.2-compiled extensions will work just fine > > with Python 2.0. > > Hmm, they have changed the C API version several times in the past > with minor rel

Re: [Python-Dev] installing IDLE & other Tools (fwd)

2000-11-15 Thread Moshe Zadka
Here is the current Python-Dev consensus about installing things in tools. Is there a Python-specific policy against these, or is that possible? -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-15 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 14 Nov 2000, Rob Tillotson wrote: > Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Say module x Depends: on Python. Where do you install it? python1.5 or > > python2.0? Remember that you must encode this information in the > > package itself. > > Any package

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
package itself. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
or a source one. A source one won't help him *at all* since Python won't be able to find the source files unless they're in a specific place. And I've no love for the whole -dev situation anyway... -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez

Forw: Packages in the Python source tree

2000-11-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
ike there is any obvious way to "install" IDLE; it looks like it is intended to be run out of the source directory. If anyone else owns (or otherwise feels responsible for) a package in the Tools directory that ought to be included with the RPMs, please write a setup script for it. Jeremy

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-13 Thread Moshe Zadka
is where we put 3rd party modules. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-13 Thread Moshe Zadka
nless the installation procedure creates them. THe reason is that since these are on /usr/lib, when an ordinary user imports them, no .pyc will be written since the user has no permissions there. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-03 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > >I recently created a debian file for my project (see http://subterfugue.org), > >and discovered just now why including .pyc and .pyo files directly doesn't > >work optimally. > Where is the problem? Python bytecode should be platform > independent!

RE: Possible bug (was Re: numpy, overflow, inf, ieee, and rich comparison) (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread Moshe Zadka
A note on building Python 2.0 for Linux. -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is no IGLU cabal. http://advogato.org/person/moshez -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:44:20 -0400 From: Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Huaiyu Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECT