[Python-Dev] Regarding Patch #103222: mv Python to PyCore

[Dan Wolfe]

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On Saturday, January 13, 2001, at 09:38 PM, Tim Peters wrote:

> [Dan Wolfe]
>> ...
>> As I mentioned, the road to getting it in Mac OS X begins with
>> getting it to build cleanly with the automated build system... so
>> I've got to get  this problem fixed before I start working on
>> getting it in the build.
>>
>> - Dan
>> (yes, I work for Apple, but this is something that I'm doing
>> on my own!)
>
> Hang in there, Dan!  I did the first Python port to the KSR-1 on my own 
> time
> too, despite working for the visionless bastards at the time.

Well, I won't go that far..... some of them are quite visionaries (I 
can't stop drooling over a Ti portable....).

> The rest is
> history:  the glory, the fame, the riches, the groupies, the adulation 
> of my
> peers.  We won't mention the financial scandal and subsequent bankruptcy
> lest it discourage you for no good reason <wink>.

You left out the part where they turn ya into a timbot... <wink><wink>

> BTW, "do the simplest thing that can possibly work"!  It's OK if it's a
> little ugly.  Better that than force hundreds of Python-builders to get
> divorced from a decade-old directory naming scheme.

Well the mv Python to PyCore was the simplest... but obviously the most 
painful.... The longer ugly fix is working but it's such a hack that I'd 
rather not show it off...I need to fix it so that it allow nice things 
such allowing the -with-suffix to be used...and then testing all the 
edge cases such as clobber, etc so that I don't break anything. :-)

appreciating-your-note-after-attempting-to-understand-makefiles-on-Saturday-night'
ly yours,

- Dan










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On Saturday, January 13, 2001, at 09:38 PM, Tim Peters wrote:


<excerpt>[Dan Wolfe]

<excerpt>...

As I mentioned, the road to getting it in Mac OS X begins with

getting it to build cleanly with the automated build system... so

I've got to get  this problem fixed before I start working on

getting it in the build.


- Dan

(yes, I work for Apple, but this is something that I'm doing

on my own!)

</excerpt>

Hang in there, Dan!  I did the first Python port to the KSR-1 on my
own time

too, despite working for the visionless bastards at the time. =20

</excerpt>

Well, I won't go that far..... some of them are quite visionaries (I
can't stop drooling over a Ti portable....).


<excerpt>The rest is

history:  the glory, the fame, the riches, the groupies, the adulation
of my

peers.  We won't mention the financial scandal and subsequent
bankruptcy

lest it discourage you for no good reason <<wink>.

</excerpt>

You left out the part where they turn ya into a timbot...
<<wink><<wink>

<color><param>0000,0000,DEB7</param>

</color><excerpt>BTW, "do the simplest thing that can possibly work"!=20
It's OK if it's a

little ugly.  Better that than force hundreds of Python-builders to get

divorced from a decade-old directory naming scheme.

</excerpt>

Well the mv Python to PyCore was the simplest... but obviously the
most painful.... The longer ugly fix is working but it's such a hack
that I'd rather not show it off...I need to fix it so that it allow
nice things such allowing the -with-suffix to be used...and then
testing all the edge cases such as clobber, etc so that I don't break
anything. :-)


=
appreciating-your-note-after-attempting-to-understand-makefiles-on-Saturda=
y-night'ly
yours,


- Dan











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