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

2001-02-10 Thread Michael Hudson
Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Michael Tiemann wrote: > > OTOH, if somebody can make a really definitive statement that I've > > misinterpreted the responses, and that 2.x _as_ python should just work, > > and if it doesn't, it's a bug that

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

2001-02-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
Eric> Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm not sure what you mean by "should just work". Source >> compatibility between 1.5.2 and 2.0 is very high. The 2.0 NEWS file >> should list all the changes (single argument append and socket >> addresses are the big ones).

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

2001-02-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not sure what you mean by "should just work". Source > compatibility between 1.5.2 and 2.0 is very high. The 2.0 NEWS > file should list all the changes (single argument append and > socket addresses are the big ones). And that change only affected a

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

2001-02-09 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Michael Tiemann wrote: > OTOH, if somebody can make a really definitive statement that I've > misinterpreted the responses, and that 2.x _as_ python should just work, > and if it doesn't, it's a bug that needs to shake out, I can address that > with our OS

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

2001-02-09 Thread Michael Tiemann
Based on the responses I have seen, it appears that this is not the kind of issue we want to address in a .1 release. I talked with Matt Wilson, the most active Python developer here, and he's all for moving to 2.x for our next .0 product, but for compatibility reasons it sounds like the option of

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

2001-02-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Moshe Zadka wrote: > 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-

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

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Feb-2001 Moshe Zadka wrote: > 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

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

2001-02-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
> That's how woody works now, and the binaries are called python and python2. The binaries should be called python1.5 and python2.0, and python should be a symlink to whatever is the default one. This is how the standard "make install" works, and it makes it possible for scripts to require a spec

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

2001-02-06 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Copying Michael Tiemann on this, as he can actually get Red Hat to move...) Copying to debian-python, since it's an important issue there too... > I've investigated this. The state of the Red Hat 7.1 beta seem to be > that it w