Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-06 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 06/10/17 18:47, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: >> Debian solves the problem of installing user components in the system >> path creating a dist-libraries along the site-libraries path in the >> python module folder. > > Uh, yeah. Pretty much universal. Except you left out the sort of > deta

Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-06 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 06/10/17 17:43, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > Yo Daniele! > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 16:57:13 -0600 > Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > What if I want to have 2.7.1 and 2.7.2, for example? >>> >>> Gentoo can easily do that as well. Pretty common on gentoo. >> >> How? It is clearly not possi

Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-06 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 10/6/17 4:21 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Daniele! > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 15:59:05 -0600 > Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > >> On 10/6/17 1:46 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: >>> Yo Daniele! >>> >>> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 23:39:51 -0600 >&g

Re: Library-path glitch, again

2017-10-06 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 06/10/17 07:32, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > Daniele, you weren't ignored. I read and processed what you said, > but it's way too late in the cycle to redo the build around a technique > (virtual environments) that the senior devs don't have experience with. I don't understand this state

Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-05 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 05/10/17 22:51, Hal Murray via devel wrote: >>> Warnings are easily lost in the noise. So either create the >>> directory or treat it as an error and bail. > >> There are two issues with just "creating the directory": >> 1) There's no guarantee that Python will actually use it. >> 2) Creating

Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-05 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 10/5/17 6:23 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > Yo Fred! > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 14:10:24 -0700 (PDT) > Fred Wright via devel wrote: > >> Exists? In sys.path?Usable? >> --- --- >> No No Unknown >> No

Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-01 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 01/10/17 22:28, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Daniele Nicolodi via devel : >> Hello, >> >> I may be suggesting the obvious, but has anyone contacted the folks on >> the Python Distutils mailing list >> https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/ fo

Re: Resolution of the library-path mess

2017-10-01 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
Hello, I may be suggesting the obvious, but has anyone contacted the folks on the Python Distutils mailing list https://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/ for their advise? I'm surprised NTPSec it the first project facing those problems. Cheers, Daniele

Re: Python Library Cleanups

2017-09-25 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 25/09/17 21:56, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT) > Fred Wright via devel wrote: > >> 1) Waf misuses get_python_lib() in a way that often gets the wrong >> result, with the effect of installing the libraries in a location >> where Python doesn't look fo

Re: State of Mac OS support

2017-08-26 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 26/08/17 10:19, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Daniele Nicolodi via devel : >> I was only observing that the website needs to be updated to reflect >> reality. At the moment it says that MacOS is supported, without any >> version specifier. > > I've pushed an updat

Re: State of Mac OS support

2017-08-26 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
On 26/08/17 07:58, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > There have been inquiries from Daniele Nicolodi and Fred Wright about > Mac OS X support. [...] > We're supporting 10.12, which has the POSIX clock calls. Earlier > versions can go piss up a rope. I was only observing that the website needs

MacOS X support?

2017-08-25 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
Hello, this https://www.ntpsec.org/supported-platforms.html says that MacOS X is an actively maintained platform, however, NTPsec current git master requires clock_settime() and (ad far as I know) this POSIX function is not implemented on MaxOS X (at least it is not on MacOS 10.10). Should that p

seccomp and systemd

2017-05-17 Thread Daniele Nicolodi via devel
Hello, I saw in the mailing list archives the discussion about the usefulness of having seccomp system call filter implemented in ntpsec. Sorry for not replying to that thread but I was not subscribed to the mailing list. I just wanted to point out that systemd has the capability to install secc