Call for testers! v2.2.2 is on the chopping block :)

[R. Tyler Ballance-5]

Hello everybody! Long time no see :)

I have been swamped lately with non-Cheetah related activities, and had
a number of good patches to improve Windows support courtesy of abbeyj@,
so I think now's as good of a time as any to start the v2.2.2 release
process.

I have created a v2.2.2rc4 tarball after going through some internal
testing here at Slide.

Download:
        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.2.2rc4
        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.2.2rc4
       
The changes in this release are:
 - 0000010: [Templates] Failure to execute templates on Google App Engine
 - 0000026: [Compiler] Support multiple inheritance
 - Additionss of a couple new C modules
 - Improvements to setup.py to support building for Windows (thanks abbeyj!)
 - Improvements to C-based NameMapper for Windows
 - Fixes for a swath of unit tests on Windows
 - Fix for unicode/utf-8 dynamic compilation error (thanks mikeb!)
   (http://urlenco.de/wwsmxaqc)

Things are looking fairly good in Hudson [1] but I'd appreciate
third-party beta testing on this while we test it internally at Slide
before I push a v2.2.2 this weekend.


Cheers :)

-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.

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[Jacob Feisley]

Hey everyone,

Nice work Tyler on the Windows improvements. I tested and it builds properly under both the mingw32 compiler as well as the MSVC compiler. I built binaries for 2.2.2rc4 for anyone on windows that wants to test before the final release but lacks a compiler to do so.

http://feisley.com/python/cheetah/2.2.2rc4/


Cheers,

Jacob

(Tyler, sorry about the duplicate email ;)

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@...> wrote:

Hello everybody! Long time no see :)

I have been swamped lately with non-Cheetah related activities, and had
a number of good patches to improve Windows support courtesy of abbeyj@,
so I think now's as good of a time as any to start the v2.2.2 release
process.

I have created a v2.2.2rc4 tarball after going through some internal
testing here at Slide.

Download:
       http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.2.2rc4
       http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.2.2rc4

The changes in this release are:
 - 0000010: [Templates] Failure to execute templates on Google App Engine
 - 0000026: [Compiler] Support multiple inheritance
 - Additionss of a couple new C modules
 - Improvements to setup.py to support building for Windows (thanks abbeyj!)
 - Improvements to C-based NameMapper for Windows
 - Fixes for a swath of unit tests on Windows
 - Fix for unicode/utf-8 dynamic compilation error (thanks mikeb!)
  (http://urlenco.de/wwsmxaqc)

Things are looking fairly good in Hudson [1] but I'd appreciate
third-party beta testing on this while we test it internally at Slide
before I push a v2.2.2 this weekend.


Cheers :)

-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.

[1] http://hudson.cheetahtemplate.org

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2009/9/3 R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@...>:

> Hello everybody! Long time no see :)
>
> I have been swamped lately with non-Cheetah related activities, and had
> a number of good patches to improve Windows support courtesy of abbeyj@,
> so I think now's as good of a time as any to start the v2.2.2 release
> process.
>
> I have created a v2.2.2rc4 tarball after going through some internal
> testing here at Slide.
>
> Download:
>        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.2.2rc4
>        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.2.2rc4
>
> The changes in this release are:
>  - 0000010: [Templates] Failure to execute templates on Google App Engine
>  - 0000026: [Compiler] Support multiple inheritance
>  - Additionss of a couple new C modules
>  - Improvements to setup.py to support building for Windows (thanks abbeyj!)
>  - Improvements to C-based NameMapper for Windows
>  - Fixes for a swath of unit tests on Windows
>  - Fix for unicode/utf-8 dynamic compilation error (thanks mikeb!)
>   (http://urlenco.de/wwsmxaqc)
>
> Things are looking fairly good in Hudson [1] but I'd appreciate
> third-party beta testing on this while we test it internally at Slide
> before I push a v2.2.2 this weekend.

Hi there,

Thanks for the fixes and new release.

You have a very nice Hudson installation, with pretty "Git Build Data"
links.  Where do you host this?  Which version of the Git plugin are
you using, it's a custom version I guess?
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[Gerold Penz-3]

R. Tyler Ballance schrieb:
> I have created a v2.2.2rc4 tarball after going through some internal
> testing here at Slide.
>
> Download:
> http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.2.2rc4
> http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.2.2rc4

Hello!

I´ve testet to install it on Windows XP Pro. No C/C++-compiler
installed. ``setup.py install`` exits with
"error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".

See: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/137741/

Regards,
Gerold
:-)


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[Jacob Feisley]

Gerold,

You have to have a C compiler on windows to perform the build. e.g.: the Microsoft Visual C compiler.
You can also use the free mingw32 compiler option for python. Both work with Cheetah.

If you don't want to do that, I prebuilt Windows binaries so that users don't have to install a compiler if they dont already have one.
http://feisley.com/python/cheetah/2.2.2rc4/

Cheers,

Jacob

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Gerold Penz <penz@...> wrote:

R. Tyler Ballance schrieb:

> I have created a v2.2.2rc4 tarball after going through some internal
> testing here at Slide.
>
> Download:
>       http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.2.2rc4
>       http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.2.2rc4

Hello!

I´ve testet to install it on Windows XP Pro. No C/C++-compiler
installed. ``setup.py install`` exits with
"error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".

See: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/137741/

Regards,
Gerold
:-)


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[Gerold Penz-3]

Jacob Feisley schrieb:
> You have to have a C compiler on windows to perform the build.

Hello!

I think, the ``setup.py install`` installation should exit without
errors, even if I don´t have a C compiler installed. The C compiler is
(I think) only needed for the optimized "_namemapper.pyd".

Many people don´t really need an optimized "_namemapper.pyd" on Windows.
They need a functioning Cheetah to develop there applications.

I feel it as as step back, if ``setup.py install`` implicitly needs a C
compiler to run without errors.

Regards,
Gerold
:-)

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[R. Tyler Ballance-5]

Moin Gerold!

Gerold Penz schrieb am Donnerstag, den 03. September 2009:

> Jacob Feisley schrieb:
> > You have to have a C compiler on windows to perform the build.
>
> Hello!
>
> I think, the ``setup.py install`` installation should exit without
> errors, even if I don´t have a C compiler installed. The C compiler is
> (I think) only needed for the optimized "_namemapper.pyd".

This is a fair point, abbeyj@ pointed me to something on IRC tha I'll
check out and we'll try to repair prior to a v2.2.2rc5

> Many people don´t really need an optimized "_namemapper.pyd" on Windows.
> They need a functioning Cheetah to develop there applications.

Agreed.

>
> I feel it as as step back, if ``setup.py install`` implicitly needs a C
> compiler to run without errors.

See above, give me today to come up with a fix, I'll update the thread
with the links to the v2.2.2rc5 tarballs and zips


Cheers

-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.


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[Jacob Feisley]

I also agree that it should be easy to install Cheetah without a compiler.

The two options I see are either a) to add an argument to the setup.py build command to specify if you want the C extensions compiled. or b) provide pre-compiled binaries or eggs of the current version.

Generally, I have seen more of the latter, but one project I work on (PyAMF http://pyamf.org) uses optional build arguments to add the C extensions so that it never fails to build or install from source.

Cheers,

Jacob

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@...> wrote:

Moin Gerold!

Gerold Penz schrieb am Donnerstag, den 03. September 2009:

> Jacob Feisley schrieb:
> > You have to have a C compiler on windows to perform the build.
>
> Hello!
>
> I think, the ``setup.py install`` installation should exit without
> errors, even if I don´t have a C compiler installed. The C compiler is
> (I think) only needed for the optimized "_namemapper.pyd".

This is a fair point, abbeyj@ pointed me to something on IRC tha I'll
check out and we'll try to repair prior to a v2.2.2rc5

> Many people don´t really need an optimized "_namemapper.pyd" on Windows.
> They need a functioning Cheetah to develop there applications.

Agreed.

>
> I feel it as as step back, if ``setup.py install`` implicitly needs a C
> compiler to run without errors.

See above, give me today to come up with a fix, I'll update the thread
with the links to the v2.2.2rc5 tarballs and zips

Cheers

-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.

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[R. Tyler Ballance-5]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks for the fixes and new release.
>
> You have a very nice Hudson installation, with pretty "Git Build Data"
> links.  Where do you host this?  Which version of the Git plugin are
> you using, it's a custom version I guess?

I have a machine colocated where I run Hudson in the Winstone container,
below are some screenshots linked from the job configuration page. I've
got the Cheetah (next) job (for example) configured as a
multiconfiguration job to build and test Cheetah on the four versions of
Python we currently support: 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6

I am using the GitHub plugin (0.2) and the Git plugin (0.7.3), not sure
where that Git Build Data stuff comes from to be honest, I've typically
seen it under a "Changes" link.

http://agentdero.cachefly.net/cheetahtemplate.org/images/cheetahhudson.jpeg
http://agentdero.cachefly.net/cheetahtemplate.org/images/cheetahhudson2.jpeg

Cheers

-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.


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