Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-09, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Huh? Why? I just don't buy this. We've effectively had a bdfl pronouncement that setuptools is dead. distribute 0.6 *is* now the live supported setuptools so any project that relies on the package called setuptools should now be using

Re: [Distutils] distribute and buildout: best practices?

2009-10-12 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-09, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Reinout van Rees wrote: I'm still not 100% sure whether it is safe to put distribute in the install_requires list of a package right now, however. As with setuptools, why do you think you need to? Namespace packages. You get

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Ben Finney
Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org writes: Time for the BDFL to flip some ownership bits for setuptools in pypi. You appear to think the BDFL has powers outside the Python language and extending to third-party projects that are independent. Regardless of what I think of Setuptools or

[Distutils] distribute or Distribute

2009-10-12 Thread Reinout van Rees
I'm probably overlooking it somewhere in the documentation: should I specify a distribute dependency as distribute or Distribute? I'm used to lowercase so that's what I'm using till now, but I've spotted a Capital Letter somewhere... So which one is preferred? Reinout -- Reinout van Rees -

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-12, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org writes: Time for the BDFL to flip some ownership bits for setuptools in pypi. You appear to think the BDFL has powers outside the Python language and extending to third-party projects that are

Re: [Distutils] distribute or Distribute

2009-10-12 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: I'm probably overlooking it somewhere in the documentation: should I specify a distribute dependency as distribute or Distribute? I'm used to lowercase so that's what I'm using till now, but I've spotted a Capital

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Hi. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: - When using buildout, I get lots of warnings.  The 1.4.2 isn't out yet, but I  also won't update all old projects' pinned zc.buildout version so I'm stuck  with warnings for a time. Note that buildout is only

Re: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg

2009-10-12 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:17:10AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: this is the PEP for setup.cfg, as requested : http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0390 Please comment, , =, =, and python_hexversion are not mentioned, is this intentional? (I'm not sure on what the result of feedback on this was)

Re: [Distutils] distribution packaging from Distribute

2009-10-12 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
10/05/2009 02:08 PM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina: I have planned to do it on my side once for debian package using a recipe that was building the debian tree once the buildout was made, but this work was not finished. I can send you what I have if it can help you Please, do. [Up] --

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: On 2009-10-09, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: AND no, virtualenv must continue to provide setuptools, backward compatibility, you know?

Re: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: The grammar in Context-dependant sections indicates possible EXPR values.  Because the in operator is supported, I would assume that tuples should also be allowed. in here is restricted to string. It was added so we could

Re: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:17:10AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: this is the PEP for setup.cfg, as requested : http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0390 Please comment, , =, =, and python_hexversion are not

Re: [Distutils] distribution packaging from Distribute

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina miham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: 10/05/2009 02:08 PM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina: I have planned to do it on my side once for debian package using a recipe that was building the debian tree once the buildout was made, but this work was not

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-12 Thread Gerry Reno
Reinout van Rees wrote: On 2009-10-08, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something

Re: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg

2009-10-12 Thread Stanley A. Klein
On Mon, October 12, 2009 12:24 am, Tarek Ziad? ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:17:10 +0200 From: Tarek Ziad? ziade.ta...@gmail.com To: distutils-sig@python.org Subject: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg Hey

Re: [Distutils] Problem with distribute and converting tests for python3

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Whapples
On 12/10/09 05:24, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/10/11 Michael Whapplesmwhapp...@aim.com: [...] ). Also anyway what would the reason be for a user to run tests on the binary module, I (or another developer in the cases of modified versions) should have run the tests before distributing

Re: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Bicking
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: The grammar in Context-dependant sections indicates possible EXPR values.  Because the in operator is supported, I would assume that tuples should

Re: [Distutils] PEP 390 - new format from setup.cfg

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: If you don't have tuples or , , etc, it seems like something like Python version 2.6 or higher is hard to express.  You'd have to enumerate 2.6, 2.7, and speculate on 2.8 and 2.9. python_version not in '2.3,2.4,2.5' (it's

Re: [Distutils] Problem with distribute and converting tests for python3

2009-10-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/12 Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com: In that case I would ask them to download the source distribution and run the tests there, they probably will want the source distribution as I may need to ask them to apply a patch and test it out (they have the environment I didn't

Re: [Distutils] Problem with distribute and converting tests for python3

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Whapples
OK, I didn't realise the .py files are included in a binary distribution, I understood it to be that the .pyc file was enough and so had followed through that the .py file wouldn't be included in a binary distribution like it is typically done in java (java tends not to include the .java

Re: [Distutils] Problem with distribute and converting tests for python3

2009-10-12 Thread Gerry Reno
Michael Whapples wrote: OK, I didn't realise the .py files are included in a binary distribution, I understood it to be that the .pyc file was enough and so had followed through that the .py file wouldn't be included in a binary distribution like it is typically done in java (java tends not

Re: [Distutils] Problem with distribute and converting tests for python3

2009-10-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/12 Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com: This leads to some more general questions about python and distributing modules (eg. why do we need binary distributions (bdist_egg, bdist, etc) when a source distribution should be fine and do all needed You don't. As mentioned, binary

[Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread P.J. Eby
I've just updated the setuptools trunk and branch with a large number of bug fixes, preparing to release 0.6c10. These fixes include fixes for all the setuptools bugs currently marked in-progress or testing on the setuptools bug tracker as of this moment, and I'd like your help in ensuring

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: But before you do that, be sure to uninstall Distribute completely.  In particular, please note that these changes are NOT a merge from Distribute; upon review, many of the tracker-submitted patches used as a basis for

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On Monday,2009-10-12, at 14:25 , P.J. Eby wrote: (E.g., one of the changes I made fixes three superficially unrelated issues in the setuptools bug tracker.) That would be: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue17 and http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue65 Right? What was the third?

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Withers wrote: Huh? Why? I just don't buy this. We've effectively had a bdfl pronouncement that setuptools is dead. distribute 0.6 *is* now the live supported setuptools so any project that relies on the package called setuptools should

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Greg Ewing
Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist I'm pretty grumpy right now. I'd just like to point out that if anyone finds setuptools to be essential to them, it's because they've chosen to make themselves

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread P.J. Eby
At 08:09 AM 10/12/2009 +, Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist I'm pretty grumpy right now. Relax, take a deep breath, and then easy_install setuptools==dev or setuptools==dev06. ;-) It turned out

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:35 AM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 08:09 AM 10/12/2009 +, Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist  I'm pretty grumpy right now. Relax, take a deep breath, and

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:25 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: But before you do that, be sure to uninstall Distribute completely Damn if I understand this...such a long time waiting for all these bug fixes...so little action, so much angst... Then that all that effort going into the Distribute fork, so

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread P.J. Eby
At 07:28 PM 10/12/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: we must uninstall Distribute completely get these fixes. That's Distribute's doing, not mine. As I understand it, their package includes a 'setuptools' package, and if it's on your sys.path, then installing the new version of

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Grönholm
sstein...@gmail.com kirjoitti: On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:25 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: But before you do that, be sure to uninstall Distribute completely Damn if I understand this...such a long time waiting for all these bug fixes...so little action, so much angst... Then that all that effort going

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 07:28 PM 10/12/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: we must uninstall Distribute completely get these fixes. That's Distribute's doing, not mine. As I understand it, their package includes a 'setuptools' package, and if it's on your

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread Brad Allen
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:48 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 07:28 PM 10/12/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: we must uninstall Distribute completely get these fixes. That's Distribute's doing, not mine.  As I understand it, their package includes a 'setuptools' package,

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.6c10 release imminent; please test

2009-10-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/13 sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com: Then suddenly out of the blue, everything is fixed in setuptools 06c10 and we must uninstall Distribute completely get these fixes. Well yes. We knew this would happen sooner or later. It's not a problem. We all know it would be better if PJE