[Python-3000] status (preparing for first alpha)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/27/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> As someone who hasn't participated in the string->unicode conversion up to
> this point (not even looking at any of the hundreds of related checkins)
> it's not at all obvious how to correctly replace PyString_* with PyUnicode_*
> in any given situation.  Is there some document somewhere that can be used
> to at least give some hints?  (I think I asked this before.  I'm not sure I
> got an answer.)

There isn't one recipe. You first have to decide whether a particular
API should use bytes or str. I would like to write something up
because I know it will be important for maintainers of extension
modules; but I don't have the time right now.

> Also, given that we are close, shouldn't a few buildbots be set up?

Agreed. Neal tried to set up a buildbot on the only machine he can
easily use for this, but that's the "old gentoo box" where he keeps
getting signal 32. (I suspect this may be a kernel bug and not our
fault.) I forget who can set up buildbots -- is it Martin? Can someone
else help?

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)