Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
I know I'm a broken record on this, and I (currently ;) have very little power to do much about it other than *talk*, but... On May 11, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >Why am I mentioning Ubuntu at all? Because all decisions about Python in >Debian are made there. My own personal hope

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 18, 2010, at 11:42 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> >> Why I think derivatives should not add new versions? >> * because it's mostly chasing numbers - I'm pretty sure there are not >>  more than 10 packages that require Python >= 2.6

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 10, 2010, at 01:23 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >Why I think derivatives should not add new versions? >* because it's mostly chasing numbers - I'm pretty sure there are not > more than 10 packages that require Python >= 2.6 and are not easy to > port to 2.5 in Ubuntu 10.04, >* because when

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-19 Thread Éric Araujo
Hello >> The premise of your implication is false. > Please translate to simple English. premise: something you base your reasoning on implication: something you present as true as a result of a reasoning In other words: Your argument says something that is based on an inexact thought. If I un

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
anatoly techtonik (18/05/2010): > Please translate to simple English. This was simple English, even French guys understood it… Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
2010/5/11 Piotr Ożarowski : > > Why am I mentioning Ubuntu at all? Because all decisions about Python in > Debian are made there. > > Do you still want me to answer your questions or is it clear already why > I am acting as an asshole? I can't see an asshole action so fat. The thing that troubles

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 23:01, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >> Indeed, that's what we expect from the python maintainer: >> >> - understand what changes between to major release >> - prepare a draft for the transition, checking packages that br

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Indeed, that's what we expect from the python maintainer: > > - understand what changes between to major release > - prepare a draft for the transition, checking packages that brake > (reporting bugs and hopefully patches) > - get consensus f

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello anatoly, I'm quite tired of your emails where you're only capable of attacking without being able to provide valuable contributions to Debian. from my POV, if you don't like know we do things, then help us fix them and STOP complaining; otherwise, simply choose another distribution and leave

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
2010/5/10 Piotr Ożarowski : > > I had to explain many times (mostly to Pylons users) why packages not > touched by Ubuntu developers are not working on Ubuntu, I know the pain. Why...? -- anatoly t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > Why I think derivatives should not add new versions? > * because it's mostly chasing numbers - I'm pretty sure there are not >  more than 10 packages that require Python >= 2.6 and are not easy to >  port to 2.5 in Ubuntu 10.04, Backport

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: \>> 80kb of duplicated >> code (even 8Mb) doesn't worth wasted time for troubleshooting in 2010. >> It may be a reason for security, but why not just let packages >> register their used version in Debian registry and track it there? >

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * anatoly techtonik , 2010-05-08, 07:16: >> >> Cover stdeb (anything else?), the reasons (if any) political and >> technical, why it (or anything else) can not be used instead >> unpythonic and unfamiliar make/debhelper stuff. It is not really >>

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-11 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Lino, I started using Debian because I love to see a long list of packages with new upstream releases available on my hard drive every single morning. Not just 100 best known applications but every niche app./library I use. I know they are prepared by either upstream authors or people who simply u

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-11 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:51, Lino Mastrodomenico wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm a Python developer, not a package maintainer, so take > what I write with a grain of salt. > > 2010/5/10 Piotr Ożarowski : >> Why I think derivatives should not add new versions? >> * because it's mostly chasing numbers -

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-11 Thread Lino Mastrodomenico
Disclaimer: I'm a Python developer, not a package maintainer, so take what I write with a grain of salt. 2010/5/10 Piotr Ożarowski : > Why I think derivatives should not add new versions? > * because it's mostly chasing numbers - I'm pretty sure there are not >  more than 10 packages that require

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-11 Thread Toni Mueller
On Tue, 11.05.2010 at 00:23:55 +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: > [Toni Mueller, 2010-05-10] > > PS: The address "www.griffith.cc" that you mention in your .sig, does > > not resolve, and afair, Berlios is not a good project host. > > To which IP your DNS points you to? Yesterday, it didn't r

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-10 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Toni Mueller, 2010-05-10] > It's still only a problem in Ubuntu until Debian makes a possibly > similar transition, right? The problem is it's out of our hands. > > I want to give Ubuntu CDs to my friends telling them that there are > > few bits of my work there. I don't want to explain to them

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-10 Thread Toni Mueller
On Mon, 10.05.2010 at 21:17:40 +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: > [Toni Mueller, 2010-05-10] > > problem. It's their choice to deviate from Debian packaging, so why > > shouldn't it be also their problem (not ours) if they break stuff, too? > changes in Python interpreter or python-central are late

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-10 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Toni Mueller, 2010-05-10] > On Mon, 10.05.2010 at 13:23:01 +0200, Piotr O??arowski > wrote: > > derivatives what to do, though. I'd never complain in public and would > > let you do whatever you want (that's derivative's right after all)... if > > Ubuntu's decisions would not have so strong impa

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-10 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Piotr, On Mon, 10.05.2010 at 13:23:01 +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: > derivatives what to do, though. I'd never complain in public and would > let you do whatever you want (that's derivative's right after all)... if > Ubuntu's decisions would not have so strong impact on us - when I'm than

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-10 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Barry Warsaw, 2010-05-10] > Note that today is the first day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu > 10.10. On Thursday we are going to have a session to discuss the roadmap for > Python on Ubuntu and what version(s) we will ship by default in 10.10. I > invite your constructive input in thi

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 08, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >The only reason I got from Ubuntu for doing transitions outside Debian >and allowing Debian to do it later (and forcing us to fix after them) >is... "because you are slow". All technical reasons (like relative >imports in 2.6) were easy to prov

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Arto Jantunen
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Piotr Ożarowski , 2010-05-08, 10:55: >>The only reason I got from Ubuntu for doing transitions outside Debian >>and allowing Debian to do it later (and forcing us to fix after them) >>is... "because you are slow". > > That's quite ironic given the fact that the major inhibi

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/08/2010 10:55 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > The only reason I got from Ubuntu for doing transitions outside Debian > and allowing Debian to do it later (and forcing us to fix after them) > is... "because you are slow". Of course Ubuntu is faster, they fixed all the python2.6 bug by disabling

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi anatoly, On Sat, 08.05.2010 at 07:41:05 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote: > three are used even though only one is default. But there is no > Python2.6 even in backports on Lenny and I need it for python-expect, > to automate my stuff. This also requires explanation to refer people > when they

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Piotr Ożarowski , 2010-05-08, 10:55: The only reason I got from Ubuntu for doing transitions outside Debian and allowing Debian to do it later (and forcing us to fix after them) is... "because you are slow". That's quite ironic given the fact that the major inhibitor of the Python 2.6 transi

Re: virtualenv (was: Python talks at DebConf)

2010-05-08 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Piotr, On Sat, 08.05.2010 at 14:33:39 +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: > [Toni Mueller, 2010-05-08] > > On Sat, 08.05.2010 at 10:55:40 +0200, Piotr O??arowski > > wrote: > > > [anatoly techtonik, 2010-05-08] > > > > Why not use virtualenv for Packaging applications? > > > > > > Every single

virtualenv (was: Python talks at DebConf)

2010-05-08 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Toni Mueller, 2010-05-08] > On Sat, 08.05.2010 at 10:55:40 +0200, Piotr O??arowski > wrote: > > [anatoly techtonik, 2010-05-08] > > > Why not use virtualenv for Packaging applications? > > > > Every single DD understands that shipping two copies of the same file is > > one too many. > > actual

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 08.05.2010 at 10:55:40 +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: > [anatoly techtonik, 2010-05-08] > > Why not use virtualenv for Packaging applications? > > Every single DD understands that shipping two copies of the same file is > one too many. actually, I don't. Virtualenv has been a lif

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* anatoly techtonik , 2010-05-08, 07:16: Cover stdeb (anything else?), the reasons (if any) political and technical, why it (or anything else) can not be used instead unpythonic and unfamiliar make/debhelper stuff. It is not really helper if no one understands how it works, and it is confusing fo

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 08/05/10 06:41, anatoly techtonik wrote: > 80kb of duplicated > code (even 8Mb) doesn't worth wasted time for troubleshooting in 2010. > It may be a reason for security, but why not just let packages > register their used version in Debian registry and track it there? Because if there's a secur

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-08 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[anatoly techtonik, 2010-05-08] > Only ideas. > "Using Python toolchain for Python modules/apps in Debian?" > Cover stdeb (anything else?), the reasons (if any) political and > technical, why it (or anything else) can not be used instead > unpythonic and unfamiliar make/debhelper stuff. It is not r

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-07 Thread anatoly techtonik
One more thing for "Python Policy 2010." Status quo with examples. Trac comes with jQuery suitable for this version of application. But Debian policy dictates to remove duplicated code, so jQuery is replaced with some other version rather than required. This creates problems with plugins and Debia

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-07 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > > I was looking through the talks submitted to DebConf, and noticed > there weren't very many Python related talks.  Given the amount there > is to discuss related to Python in Debian, it would be great to see > some more submissions. > > Per

Re: Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 04, 2010, at 04:20 PM, Richard Darst wrote: >I was looking through the talks submitted to DebConf, and noticed >there weren't very many Python related talks. Given the amount there >is to discuss related to Python in Debian, it would be great to see >some more submissions. I wish I could

Python talks at DebConf

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Darst
Hello, I was looking through the talks submitted to DebConf, and noticed there weren't very many Python related talks. Given the amount there is to discuss related to Python in Debian, it would be great to see some more submissions. Perhaps the list can suggest some talks and we can nominate som