Re: Using Py_SetPythonHome

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:43:40 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paul_Koning@Dell.com, gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:35:45 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > On Oct 3, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > There do not exist any multi-user systems anymore.  Each developer has her own
> > > > virtual machine (in fact many of them), therefore sure with root access and
> > > > with proper normal automatic package management there.
> > > 
> > > That is not true.
> > 
> > Of course, it isn't.  Example: fencepost.gnu.org.
> 
> I hope you do not mean this seriously.

Actually, I do.

> I understand there still exist some
> such systems but they are a relict needing to be replaced.  And at least from
> the systems around me (not just Red Hat) they already have been replaced.
> 
> Specifically logging into fencepost.gnu.org for checking FSF assignments is
> always a pain as the interactive remote shell is slow, there are unconfigured
> and missing tools there, one is anxious not to leave there accidentally some
> CPU-intensive crashed processes etc.

All that might be true, but is not relevant to this discussion.  If
there's something on fencepost that needs to be improved or fixed,
mail the sysadmins.  I did that several times, and everything I need
for my work on GNU projects was fixed sooner than I expected.

> The right solution would sure be if I could just 'git pull' an update to the
> assignments database/files.

Who or what prevents you from setting up a git repo on fencepost, or
asking savannah admins to add copyright.list to their repo, or ...?