[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Merging changes before beta

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

> I am in the process of merging changes from trunk to the py3k branch.
> (If somebody else is already doing it, please tell me quickly!)

BTW, I will be hanging out on #python-dev @ freenode from now until  
tomorrow night, so if you have questions feel free to ping me.  My  
userid is 'barry' (so creative <wink>) and I keep generally UTC-0400  
time.

> The changes I will skip are (for the moment):
>
> - r64114 (gregory.p.smith): a bunch of checks for integer overflows,
> contributed by Google.
> This change has many conflicts, I will do it later.

Not a blocker.

> - r63828 (mark.hammond): Fix bdist_wininst --user-access-control for  
> win2k
> For this it is necessary to recompile the various wininst-*.exe,
> and not all my compilers have the necessary headers or libraries.

Not a blocker.

> - r63955 (ronald.oussoren): MacOS X: Enable 4-way universal builds
> I may try the merge, but without any way to test the result.
> OTOH, I could go and trust the buildbots.

Only if you're prepared to back it out if they go red.  Not a blocker.

> - 64062,64068-64069,64080 (josiah.carlson): Asynchat
> I may give a try, but it will be tricky. And I don't even know how
> asynchat works
> (I just remember it was hard to get it right for python 3.0)

Hmm.  I don't know the details of these.

> -  
> 63207,63210,63218,63403,63469,63537,63597 
> -63598,63601,63604,63617-63618,
> 63714,63718,63742,63745,63799 (jesus.cea, gregory.p.smith): bsddb  
> module
> This is a important list of changes, and may require heavy adaptations
> to the code.
> issue2887 has been filed for this task.

Not a blocker.

- -Barry

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