[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 21.07.10 17:47, schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman:
> Martin&  Tim brought up the issue of externals which the buildbots
>> use on Windows to bring in and build slightly patched versions of external
>> libraries such as OpenSSL and sqlite3.
>
> The issue in hgsubversion (which is different from hgsvn) has been
> fixed. The current problem is some oddity in the SVN bindings where it
> keeps complaining about having too many files open... I've been
> troubleshooting this in my thesis downtime, but nothing definitive
> yet. I'd like to hear more about where these externals are, so we can
> look into fixing that. Recent Mercurial includes support for svn
> subrepos, which might be usable for this.

This isn't really about svn:externals, but about

http://svn.python.org/projects/external/

which gets used in

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/buildbot/external-common.bat

There may not be a problem - all is needed is a recommendation how
to replace it. The requirements are these:
- multiple versions of external libraries
- each Python version only needs a single copy of the library
- we make changes to the code after its imported from upstream,
   and want to remember what these changes are

Regards,
Martin