Re: status request?

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you CC debian-python, I would expect that you can at least follow > the status updates on this list. CC'ing debian-python and not reading > it yourself sounds strange. See my update on this list. I looked on debian-python, and I couldn't see anythin

Re: status request?

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Sanghyeon Seo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>From what I can tell, nothing have changed since this summary by > Raphael Hertzog two weeks ago: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/05/msg00034.html > > "The only issue is Matthias Klose who absolutely wants to push big > packaging changes

status request?

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
What's the status of upgrading the python package to point at python2.4? I have asked several times, and my questions have been entirely ignored. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, but there's a whole new generation of Debian developers here that > simply won't develop anything in perl, just because perl looks too > complex and cryptic to us. Now, with bash, perl and python, we can deal > with the scripting needs for at l

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We can burn those bridges when we come to them. Right now there's only > one such distribution, with one such language, which has already done > all the work to strip it down to a small size. Scalability problems do not happen because someone failed to

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Granted if it is a real issue, then why not use perl? Yes, I hate >> >> p

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Granted if it is a real issue, then why not use perl? Yes, I hate >> perl too, but really, the argument "hey, people like Python too" >> implies that we should have a scheme interpreter, a perl, a python, >> emacs lisp, and well, everything anyone mi

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's nothing that prevents us saying "we aren't going to support > every high-level language" and stick to more than one (we already stick > to two -- sh and Perl). It just means "I'd like to write scripts in X" > alone isn't a good enough reason. Ye

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:40:55AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> I asked this question earlier, and no one answered. Are there .config >> scripts being written in python today in Ubuntu? (Hmm, where are the python >> bindings for debconf, and what e

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One example is .config maintainer scripts, some of which are quite complex > and worth writing in a higher-level language than shell. This is surely true; Steve Langasek asked if this was a real issue in Ubuntu or merely a potential issue. Granted if

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Programs that want to use python can assume that python-minimal is >> there (since it's Essential), and since python-minimal is never >> install

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:38:55PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:18:48PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: >> > > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok