Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
David Lyon wrote: > So it isn't clear why you want to remove the thing that you are > advocating works so great Jim was quoting someone *else* that had suggested removing it (I'm not sure how serious the original suggestion actually was though). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [D istutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:07:39 -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: > What about those people *without* versioning issues? > > I have no qualms suggesting that package management programs avoid the > use of site-packages. Such programs do need to cater to edge cases. I'm just wondering how that is possible?

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread P.J. Eby
At 04:07 PM 7/18/2009 -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: Michael Foord wrote: >> I agree. People with versioning issues *should* be using virtualenv. Tarek Ziadé replied (and several people later agreed) > Let's remove site-packages from Python then. What about those people *without* versioning issues?

[Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread Jim Jewett
Michael Foord wrote: >> I agree. People with versioning issues *should* be using virtualenv. Tarek Ziadé replied (and several people later agreed) > Let's remove site-packages from Python then. What about those people *without* versioning issues? I have no qualms suggesting that package manageme

Re: [Python-Dev] Experiment: Adding "re" to string objects.

2009-07-18 Thread Michael Foord
MRAB wrote: Sean Reifschneider wrote: I'm mailing this to python-dev because I'd like feedback on the idea of adding an "re" attribute to strings. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not yet, but I figure it's worth discussion. The module mentioned here includes a class called "restr()" whic

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

2009-07-18 Thread Paul Moore
2009/7/4 Brett Cannon : >> > While I really like the idea of using named branches for each release so >> > that there is a single py3k branch that contains all relevant history >> > for >> > every release, I think we should start simple and go with cloned >> > branches. >> > That way the workflow d