Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-21 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 02/16/2012 10:42 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be getting a "NameError: global name > 'BRFSError' is not defined" traceback if it were. (BTRFSError anyone?) Apparently it's not BTRFSError either. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796013 -- =

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread stan
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:33:11 -0500 Jon Stanley wrote: > No packages need to be installed, everything is right there in the > install environment. In the window with the traceback, there's a > 'debug' option that will drop you into PDB (I haven't looked at the > code, but it probably calls pdb.pos

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 16 February 2012 21:42, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Just kidding ... sort of. > > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be getting a "NameError: global name > 'BRFSError' is not defined" traceback if it were.  (BTRFSError anyone?) > Would writing it in pypy count :)? -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core sk

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Lumens
> No packages need to be installed, everything is right there in the > install environment. In the window with the traceback, there's a > 'debug' option that will drop you into PDB (I haven't looked at the > code, but it probably calls pdb.post_mortem() with the exception > object). See http://docs

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Stanley
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, stan wrote: > Can you expand on entering the debugger when a traceback occurs?  What > packages need to be installed?  How is it invoked immediately after the > traceback in order to pick up the failed job? No packages need to be installed, everything is right th

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:56:25 -0500 Jon Stanley wrote: > No, you'd instead get much less useful errors instead. Obviously this > particular typo would never compile, but logic errors, instead of > giving you a nice traceback (and the ability to enter a debugger > straight from where the installer

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-19 Thread Jon Stanley
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be getting a "NameError: global name > 'BRFSError' is not defined" traceback if it were.  (BTRFSError anyone?) No, you'd instead get much less useful errors instead. Obviously this particular typo would nev

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-19 Thread John5342
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 23:43, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Human decisions are removed from system installation. Anaconda begins to > learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern > time, May 8th, 2012. ;-) This is why we really need to move to a language where this kind of th

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-19 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 02/18/2012 12:02 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/17/2012 02:27 PM, FRank Murphy wrote: >> On 17/02/12 20:52, John Dulaney wrote: >>> >>> I say, write it in Fortran! >>> >>> >> >> Cobol. > > I'd vote for PL/1, APL, Ada, or BCPL. But let's get really odd... > how about Lisp? After all, we want

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/17/2012 02:27 PM, FRank Murphy wrote: On 17/02/12 20:52, John Dulaney wrote: I say, write it in Fortran! Cobol. I'd vote for PL/1, APL, Ada, or BCPL. But let's get really odd... how about Lisp? After all, we want Anaconda to self-extend to handle all possible conditions, don't we?

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-17 Thread FRank Murphy
On 17/02/12 20:52, John Dulaney wrote: I say, write it in Fortran! Cobol. -- Regards Frank "Jack of all Fubars" Learning "Till the day I die" -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

RE: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-17 Thread John Dulaney
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:29:01 -0500 > From: clum...@redhat.com > To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language! > > > Just kidding ... sort of. > > > > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn&

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Lumens
> Just kidding ... sort of. > > I'm willing to bet that I wouldn't be getting a "NameError: global name > 'BRFSError' is not defined" traceback if it were. (BTRFSError anyone?) > > Bugzilla at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794504. You know, redoing it in Haskell really would solve

Re: Anaconda should be rewritten in a compiled language!

2012-02-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 22:42 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Just kidding ... sort of. I take it you're volunteering? ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraprojec