Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 23, 2011, at 09:56 PM, Allison Randal wrote: >While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about >that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle. >What's on your mind? * Python 3 only on the CDs. * Python 2.6 dropped. This time for sure. :) /

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 23, 2011, at 08:12 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >On Friday, September 23, 2011 07:55:24 PM Barry Warsaw wrote: >> * Python 3 only on the CDs. > >Not feasible for Kubuntu unless an upstream Python 3 port for python-dbus >appears (which python-qt4/pykde4 can support). Y

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 25, 2011, at 01:29 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: >Barry Warsaw [2011-09-23 19:55 -0400]: >> * Python 3 only on the CDs. > >Given that in Oneiric we do not have a single Python 3 app on the CD, >there are major blockers like dbus etc., and that P is an >LTS/stability cycle, I

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 27, 2011, at 01:02 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >If you aim your minimum Python version at 2.6, it's not that hard to write >code that works with both python and python3. If you want a "P" target for >Python3, I'd suggest getting Ubuntu custom code working in either so that we >can throug

Re: Python2

2011-12-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Kai Mast wrote: >how do i know if a python-file is executed by Python2 not Python3? There >is a command "python3" but none called "python2" or am I missing something? /usr/bin/python (a.k.a. 'python' at your shell prom

Re: pbuilder performance

2012-11-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 17, 2012, at 07:10 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >eatmydata - reduces IO by faking fsync which speeds up dpkg install a >lot (note this may result in e.g. test-suite failures which rely on >fsync) I've used this occasionally, though it's not part of my (already fast enough) build environment

Re: Building a python application

2013-04-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 23, 2013, at 07:14 PM, Niranjan Rao wrote: >My python code depends upon some python libraries, some of which are part >ubuntu repository and I could install them using apt-get. There are other >libraries which are not part of the repository and had to install using >python PIP. So far I ha

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 09, 2013, at 10:40 AM, LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: >Personally, I look forward to the day of the return of the 24x80 >CRT... but know I am in the minority.. for me the GUI is only >something that gets in the way of me being productive. X is the bagel to the lox of Emacs. -Barry signature.asc

Re: Why Ubuntu doesn’t support certain form of shebang for Python?

2014-11-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 11, 2014, at 01:04 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: >Using /usr/bin/env will cause problems in certain conditions, such as >when running under a virtualenv and other such environments. The general recommendation is that /usr/bin/env is a good shebang to use when your package is under development, b

Re: Why Ubuntu doesn’t support certain form of shebang for Python?

2014-11-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 11, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Neal McBurnett wrote: >I'm glad that python2 is in Debian and Ubuntu (do you know offhand which >releases?). Which distros is it still not supported in? Are they likely to >catch up? Sorry, I don't know off-hand. >Do you see a path to a world where compliance with

Re: Why Ubuntu doesn’t support certain form of shebang for Python?

2014-11-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 11, 2014, at 03:52 PM, Neal McBurnett wrote: >I should have clarified my point better. Scott's message recommended putting >python, rather than python2 in shebangs, since it works in more distros. >That seems to be In contrast with PEP 394, which says to use python2 rather >than python, un