[Python-Dev] PEP 385: the eol-type issue

[Georg Brandl]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
>> I'm not aware of any other unresolved items; they may exist, but the fact
>> that they're not discussed on this list in detail means that they are
>> largely unimportant.
> 
> There is a long list of things that still need to be done; each one
> potentially creating new problems. In particular:
> - the .hgeols plugin needs to be written
> - the hooks need to be written, or at least deployed, for code
>   style checks, for email notification, and for buildbot triggering
> - the build identification patch needs to be written (I do expect
>   many problems out of that one, some possibly small - I'm not a
>   Mercurial user, so I can't estimate how difficult that will be)
> - buildbot configuration needs to be adjusted
> - the roundup regex needs to be configured to refer to hgweb links
> - access control needs to be setup
> - stackless needs to be converted
> - a decision on the location of the PEPs must be made and implemented
> - developer documentation needs to be written
> - a decision must be made what to do with the migrated parts of
>   subversion, in the subversion repository
> 
> I may have missed some things. I would like to see test period (say,
> two weeks) were we can find further issues.

Sure there are many things to do; I was speaking of issues where the way
to go is not decided, and needs to be before the switch can happen.

Maybe build identification is one of them; but I think everything has been
said in the one thread we had about this.

Georg

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