Re: Thoughts on the transition to Python 2.7

2010-10-21 Thread Luca Falavigna
Il 21/10/2010 1.30, Barry Warsaw ha scritto: > * Python 2.7 compatibility > > We need to check both build and installation (i.e. for pure Python packages) > compatibility for 2.7. We should analyze which differences between 2.6 and 2.7 are relevant for the most packages we ship in the archive, in

Re: Thoughts on the transition to Python 2.7

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 21, 2010, at 06:35 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >* Barry Warsaw , 2010-10-20, 19:30: >>We need to check both build and installation (i.e. for pure Python package >s) >>compatibility for 2.7. > >What is so special about pure-Python packages? I mistyped. I meant to say that Python file compatibili

Re: Thoughts on the transition to Python 2.7

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 21, 2010, at 09:15 AM, Luca Falavigna wrote: >Il 21/10/2010 1.30, Barry Warsaw ha scritto: >> * Python 2.7 compatibility >> >> We need to check both build and installation (i.e. for pure Python packages) >> compatibility for 2.7. > >We should analyze which differences between 2.6 and 2.7 a

Porting to Python 3

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
Ultimately of course we all want to land on Python 3. In conversation with Toshio Kuratomi and David Malcolm of the Fedora project, we feel that it's in all of our best interest to pool our resources. I think the distros are on the front lines of this transition, and working together across the d

Wrong SVN URLs at Alioth page

2010-10-21 Thread anatoly techtonik
Hello, The Alioth page lists wrong paths for SVN repositories: https://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=30714 -- anatoly t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Broken post-commit hook

2010-10-21 Thread anatoly techtonik
Hi, When you commit changes to SVN, the post-commit hook fails with error. Sendingdebian\changelog Sendingdebian\control Adding debian\watch Transmitting file data ... Committed revision 6210. Warning: post-commit hook failed (exit code 13) with output: Error opening cach

Re: Thoughts on the transition to Python 2.7

2010-10-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Barry Warsaw , 2010-10-21, 10:59: Python file compatibility cannot be fully determined until byte-compilation time, which happens at installation. If you care only about byte-compilation, installing a package is overkill. It's way easier and faster just to unpack the .deb (dpkg-deb -x) and

Re: Wrong SVN URLs at Alioth page

2010-10-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/21/2010 05:52 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Hello, > > The Alioth page lists wrong paths for SVN repositories: > https://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=30714 That url should work fine. But you might want to report it to the alioth admins. Nothing we can fix. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Thoughts on the transition to Python 2.7

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 21, 2010, at 06:50 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >If you care only about byte-compilation, installing a package is >overkill. It's way easier and faster just to unpack the .deb (dpkg-deb -x) >and run `python2.7 -m compileall /path/to/unpacked/stuff`. Nice tip, thanks. I've added it to the wiki pa