[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010 (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Wed Jul 21 18:47:49 CEST 2010

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:11, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

The Mercurial migration should move forward once Dirkjan has finished work on his thesis. Martin insisted that a for-real repository would have to be set up so that people can really see how it would work. An outstanding issue in hg-svn prevents the Python history from being imported, but it should be fixable. 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.

I wonder if it's sensible to discuss the splitting of the interpreter from the stdlib in separate repositories, because it might be better to convert to separate repositories in one go (instead of splitting out the stdlib later on). Not sure about this, but it would be useful to discuss at least.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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