Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
l, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie. www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Any way to tweak build apt-listchanges for testing [Partial Results]

2003-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
ecker, which is why it says "might" in the warning. If the program actually does try to use an uninitialized variable then the results are unpredictable, and certainly not a good thing. HTH, -D -- Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil. Proverbs 16:6 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpnJJThRDNIR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freezing python packages until python-2.3 becomes the default in testing

2003-10-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
n't enter testing. What is needed is for all 3 of these packages to move to testing at once or else none of them will. HTH, -D -- Folly delights a man who lacks judgement, but a man of understanding keeps a straight course. Proverbs 15:21 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpYG1p5MJE7p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Python policy update

2003-08-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpqY8JgCVCbN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
This is the issue at hand. -D -- For society, it's probably a good thing that engineers value function over appearance. For example, you wouldn't want engineers to build nuclear power plants that only _look_ like they would keep all the radiation inside. (Scott Adams - The Dilbert principle) http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpZPpvOlma4t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
t been transitioned. Since this discussion has become so drawn out, I just want to explicitly say that I really do appreciate your work Matthias, I am just disagreeing with one specific decision. -D -- [Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski quicker http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpwy628UMP1Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
rue, but I want the best ;-). (that is, I've had python2.3 installed for around a year now; ever since Matthias started providing the pre-alpha snapshots) -D PS. Thanks, Matthias, for providing the 2.3 packages so early! I really enjoyed having it available! -- Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what He has made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7:13 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpMbpyIBy763.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
ample use zope and the zope-* add-ons. -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpshP3Eciert.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: #!/usr/bin/python2.3 vs #!/usr/bin/env python2.3

2003-08-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
close all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgpD8KXJcP9a2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
nally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. http://dman13.dyndns.org/

Re: Error message from install of python packages

2003-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
~1 : For when quality, reliability and security just aren't that important! http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ pgpUYpjAmy3II.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lintian

2002-11-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
that you do not belong to God. John 8:47 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ pgpyrv5iZf5KT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
lurking on the discussions) -D -- But As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ pgp0JFaZZdMpe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python-gtk and python-gtk2 (and gnome packages), please comm

2002-06-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
o hear peoples opinion. | | it is not that harsh to simply limit python apps using gtk 1.2 to python | version 2.1. If they want to move up to 2.2 (or higher) they have to port to | gtk 2.0. This sounds acceptable to me. -D -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! http:/

FW: possible python bug?

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
t the people He gives it to. -- Old Irish Saying http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ pgppGTClLboj1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Python and Emacs

2002-05-22 Thread dman
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:50:10PM +0200, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: | On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:38:26AM -0500, dman wrote: | > | --- cut --- | > | augroup Python | > | au! | > | autocmd BufRead *.py set expandtab softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4

Re: Python and Emacs

2002-05-22 Thread dman
code is nicely readable in any common environment. -D -- But As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg pgpyJ1oTkmm8d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: where is policy?

2002-04-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:21:38AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: | Bastian Kleineidam writes: | > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 04:30:49PM -0500, dman wrote: | > > | > > I did a google search and a search using the engine on debian.org but | > > I can't find the Official Pytho

where is policy?

2002-04-28 Thread dman
because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:5-6 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg pgpf33T8T78et.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Removing 4suite from Woody [Re: Please test new 4suite]

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:10:08AM -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote: | Debian newbie question, here. How does the progression of packages go | within stable? Once 0.12.0 emerges, can the sources pick it up, or is | it pretty much locked out of stable for all time? stable packages don't progress, apart

Re: Removing 4suite from Woody [Re: Please test new 4suite]

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:52:41PM +0200, Alexandre wrote: | I'd be a bit reluctant to work on patches now, given the short | delay, since it would be difficult for people to test the patches | properly before Woody goes out, Don't be too sure of that. It was almost a year ago when we delayed d

Re: Python versions and bytecode

2002-03-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:06:38PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: | Hi, | | as I'm currently packaging solarwolf, I have a question about python | bytecode. I have put the .py files used by the game in | /usr/lib/games/solarwolf/ and I compile them in postinst with | compileall.py. The question is

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:08:22AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | On 20-Feb-2002 dman wrote: | > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | >| >> | >| >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? | >| &

Re: Bug#128531: tmda

2002-02-20 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | >> | >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? | > | > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of | > the package management system. | | I fail to see why these files need to be

Re: need help updating imgsizer for python2.1

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 03:12:43PM +1100, Kim Oldfield wrote: | On 8 Jan 2002, Peter S Galbraith typed: | ] I'm the maintainer for imgsizer, | ] | ] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/imgsizer.html | ] | ] which used to be a perl script and is | ] now a py

Re: Removal of python1.5?

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:53:24AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: | On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:00:20PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: | > If I don't hear a serious reason to keep python1.5, I plan to file a | > bug report for ftp.debian.org to remove the python1.5 package. | | Eh? | | python1.5's stil

Re: Removal of python1.5?

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:22:12PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: | dman writes: | > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:00:20PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: | > | It looks like the move to python (v2.1) is done. There are three | > | packages remaining: | > | > Also gadfly depends on 1.5. U

Re: Removal of python1.5?

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:00:20PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: | It looks like the move to python (v2.1) is done. There are three | packages remaining: Also gadfly depends on 1.5. Unfortunately it appears stagnant upstream (last release in '98). The testsuite passes for 2.1 but not 2.2. Both v

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:24:32PM +, Ricardo Javier Cardenes wrote: | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:37:58AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: | > In any case, it is the same basic problem for any multi-version packages; | > you need to either make them co-exist properly so they can both be installed

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:37:15AM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: | On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:22, Ben Burton wrote: | > | > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and | > converts it back to python source. | | No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not

Re: Python-2.1 becoming Debian's default Python version

2001-11-07 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:10:31PM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: | * Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011107 15:04]: | > Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > It's probably better to check if you're unsure rather than speculate or | > > guess. From the 2.1.1 LICENCE file: | >

Re: Python-2.1 becoming Debian's default Python version

2001-11-06 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:05:29PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: | Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit | | Please Cc: me, because I am not on the list. | | > python-ecasound | | I have been looking at python 2.1, and python2.1 debian/copyright file tells | me that it is "not G

Re: libglade -- absent!?

2001-10-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:01:37PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: | On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:06:46PM -0400, dman wrote: | | > Thanks! I was searching for "libglade". | > | > Hint to Torsten : put the word "libglade" in the Description: | > somewhere to aid &

Re: libglade -- absent!?

2001-10-25 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:48:00AM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: | On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:06:46PM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:27:44PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | > | On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:52:46AM -0400, dman wrote: | > | > | > | > I can't

Re: libglade -- absent!?

2001-10-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:27:44PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:52:46AM -0400, dman wrote: | > | > I can't seem to find the python bindings to libglade anywhere in | > Debian packages. | | It's python-glade Thanks! I was searching for "lib

libglade -- absent!?

2001-10-25 Thread dman
I can't seem to find the python bindings to libglade anywhere in Debian packages. Is it not packaged yet? IIRC the source is distributed by James Henstridge with his PyGTK/PyGNOME project. I really like his stuff and want to use python+libglade to drastically reduce the effort needed for a part

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-22 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:32:33AM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote: | Anthony Towns wrote: | > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:17AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: | > > Say, you would install 2.1.2 in /usr/local. | > | > How about we just say "Don't install other versions of python in | > /usr/local"

Re: python does not seem to find installed modules

2001-10-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:43:29PM +, Johann Spies wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | I this a bug in the debian python packages? All previous versions of | > | python in debian I have used was usable right after installation. | > | This one (Woody - from unoff

Re: python does not seem to find installed modules

2001-10-12 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:30:02PM +, Johann Spies wrote: | I am still struggling to get wxPython to work. | | The following happens when I try to run a program "taalunie.py" which | I wrote earlier: | | --- | Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C l

Re: Experimental Python packages

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:00:26AM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: | | > The real problem is making assumptions about what /usr/bin/python is | > beyond what the RefMan says. The same sort of problem occurs if a | > script writer assumes /bin/sh is bash and uses bash-isms rather than | > sticking to the

Re: Experimental Python packages

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:33:28AM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: | | > In any case, Jython and CPython really do need to be able to co-exist | > peacfully. | | They certainly coexist peacefully. No problem there. All I'm saying is that | it doesn't support *.so CPython modules. And this is somehow

Re: Experimental Python packages

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:32:12PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: | | > I think the admin should be able to choose which python implementation | > is referred to by /usr/bin/python independent of which python (or | > python-base if you prefer) packages are installed (the alternatives | > mechanism may b

Re: Experimental Python packages

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:27:18PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: | On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Neil Schemenauer wrote: | > dman wrote: | > > I think the admin should be able to choose which python implementation | > > is referred to by /usr/bin/python independent of which python (or | > &g

Re: Experimental Python packages

2001-09-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:38:42PM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote: | Bruce Sass wrote: | > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Neil Schemenauer wrote: | > > Again the package is python-base, not python2.2-base. pydoc depends on | > > python-base_2.1.1 and uses #!/usr/bin/python. I don't see a problem | > > with t