I have posted two messages here regarding the new setup.py mechanism for building Modules/ but have received no comments on them so far. Here's another go: 1. I think that setup.py should output warnings about modules which cannot be built for some reason rather than having ot the build process completely. 2. I suggest adding -L/usr/lib/termcap to the readline extension. This doesn't hurt anywhere and will get this extension to compile on SuSE Linux too. Thoughts ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
1. I think that setup.py should output warnings about modules which cannot be built for some reason rather than having ot the build process completely.
2. I suggest adding -L/usr/lib/termcap to the readline extension. This doesn't hurt anywhere and will get this extension to compile on SuSE Linux too.
Both good ideas. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. -- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
1. I think that setup.py should output warnings about modules which cannot be built for some reason rather than having ot the build process completely.
2. I suggest adding -L/usr/lib/termcap to the readline extension. This doesn't hurt anywhere and will get this extension to compile on SuSE Linux too.
Both good ideas.
Should I implement the two and check these in ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
1. I think that setup.py should output warnings about modules which cannot be built for some reason rather than having ot the build process completely.
2. I suggest adding -L/usr/lib/termcap to the readline extension. This doesn't hurt anywhere and will get this extension to compile on SuSE Linux too.
Both good ideas.
Should I implement the two and check these in ?
I may not channel Guido the way Tim does, but I suspect he gave you developer privileges because he trusts you to do routine stuff like this. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. -- H.L. Mencken
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
1. I think that setup.py should output warnings about modules which cannot be built for some reason rather than having ot the build process completely.
2. I suggest adding -L/usr/lib/termcap to the readline extension. This doesn't hurt anywhere and will get this extension to compile on SuSE Linux too.
Both good ideas.
Should I implement the two and check these in ?
I may not channel Guido the way Tim does, but I suspect he gave you developer privileges because he trusts you to do routine stuff like this.
Just asking because setup.py is Andrew's baby. I'll add the above two later today. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
[Eric S. Raymond]
I may not channel Guido the way Tim does, but I suspect he gave you developer privileges because he trusts you to do routine stuff like this.
Excellent, Eric! You're batting 1%. Here's how to boost it to 93%: whenever a new idea comes up, just grumble "no". You'll be right 92% of the time <wink>. Reminds me of a friend who got sucked into working at a neural-net startup trying to build a black box to predict whether the daily close of the S&P 500 would be above or below the previous day's. He was greatly impressed by the research they had done, showing that the prototype got the right answer more than half the time when fed historical data, and at a very high significance level (i.e., it almost certainly did better than flipping a coin). What he didn't realize at the time is that if they had written the prototype in Python: # S&P close daily direction predictor print "higher" it would have been right about 2/3rds the time <0.33 wink>. never-ascribe-to-insight-what-can-be-explained-by-idiocy-ly y'rs - tim
tim wrote:
Reminds me of a friend who got sucked into working at a neural-net startup trying to build a black box to predict whether the daily close of the S&P 500 would be above or below the previous day's. /.../
# S&P close daily direction predictor print "higher"
replace "higher" with "same", and you have a pretty decent weather predictor. Cheers /F
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