Re: [Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

2009-10-15 Thread David Cournapeau
David Lyon wrote: I don't have a way of doing that right now - and am not aware of practical examples that might require it. Anything that can't be handled with the above will have to go into a pre-install or post-install script and be coded with traditional python coding. Let's take a

[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.5 coming up

2009-10-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hey, Reinout and I have worked on bugs related to zc.buildout support, and it seems that now everything works fine. Thanks for those who try it on their side ! So we will be shipping a 0.6.5 probably friday for that, and postpone all the other issues for 0.6.6, except a few ones that are easy to

Re: [Distutils] Distribute 0.6.5 coming up

2009-10-15 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-15, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: buildouters, if you want to try the latest dev version you can grab : http://python-distribute.org/bootstrap_dev.py To make it explicit: grabbing this bootstrap and using it is safe for every project. And it is the only change you need

[Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Phillip, I have a proposal for Distribute 0.7 : let's join forces and all work together in that tool. All would be the commiters of Distribute, and PJE. These people would all be in the same team with the same commiter rights, and I propose that you become the leader of that tool and guide us in

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: And if you agree, and want the project name, ... to be changed... we can all find a neutral name that everybody would like. ___ Distutils-SIG maillist -

[Distutils] distribute equivalent of setup.py develop?

2009-10-15 Thread Andreas Klöckner
Hi there, I've recently tried distribute, and much to my dismay found that it doesn't appear to contain an equivalent of setup.py develop. Is such a thing planned, or, even better, available now? Thanks, Andreas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

2009-10-15 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:00 +0900, David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote: Let's take a common case: using cython/pyrex to accelerate some code, but you still want people to be able to use your package without a C compiler (bzr, cython are examples of such packages). I believe

Re: [Distutils] distribute equivalent of setup.py develop?

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Grönholm
Andreas Klöckner kirjoitti: Hi there, I've recently tried distribute, and much to my dismay found that it doesn't appear to contain an equivalent of setup.py develop. Is such a thing planned, or, even better, available now? You must be mistaken. Distribute definitely has such a command.

Re: [Distutils] distribute equivalent of setup.py develop?

2009-10-15 Thread Andreas Klöckner
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Andreas Klöckner wrote: Hi there, I've recently tried distribute, and much to my dismay found that it doesn't appear to contain an equivalent of setup.py develop. Is such a thing planned, or, even better, available now? Ah, never mind. I had screwed up my

Re: [Distutils] distribute equivalent of setup.py develop?

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Grönholm
Andreas Klöckner kirjoitti: On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Andreas Klöckner wrote: Hi there, I've recently tried distribute, and much to my dismay found that it doesn't appear to contain an equivalent of setup.py develop. Is such a thing planned, or, even better, available now? Ah,

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread P.J. Eby
At 02:32 PM 10/15/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: That would make us happy, because we would be able to work and continue if you are not available sometimes without the feeling that we are locked, and that would give you the manpower you miss to develop some of your idea. So... you've explained

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
that there are other people on the Distribute team who I'd seriously consider as committers on setuptools or even as a chief maintainer of the setuptools 0.6 line (if not more). ...asked me who those team members are I'm asking. Who are they and, if you are willing to give them access,

[Distutils] Distribute docs at packages.python.org?

2009-10-15 Thread John Gabriele
Was just looking at the Distribute docs at http://packages.python.org/distribute/index.html (nicely styled, btw). Are there any other projects at http://packages.python.org/ (note, that page actually doesn't even load)? What is the purpose of packages.python.org , and how does one get their

Re: [Distutils] Distribute docs at packages.python.org?

2009-10-15 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-15, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote: Was just looking at the Distribute docs at http://packages.python.org/distribute/index.html (nicely styled, btw). Are there any other projects at http://packages.python.org/ (note, that page actually doesn't even load)? What is the purpose

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread P.J. Eby
At 02:38 PM 10/15/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: that there are other people on the Distribute team who I'd seriously consider as committers on setuptools or even as a chief maintainer of the setuptools 0.6 line (if not more). ...asked me who those team members are I'm asking. Who

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:55 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: [a whole bunch of stuff...] Understood and I've observed the public portions of all of this. Much of it has not been pretty. Personality conflicts aside, I wonder if it would be possible to move some portion of the base of both setuptools and

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Schurter
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:55 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: [a whole bunch of stuff...] Understood and I've observed the public portions of all of this.  Much of it has not been pretty. Personality conflicts aside, I wonder

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Michael Schurter mich...@susens-schurter.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:55 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: [a whole bunch of stuff...] Understood and I've observed the public portions of

[Distutils] distribute 0.6.6 is out

2009-10-15 Thread Reinout van Rees
Tarek is off to bed, so I'll throw out a quick mail to bring you all the happy tiding that distribute 0.6.6 is out! So get ready for your easy_install -U distribute. Buildout users can grab http://python-distribute.org/bootstrap.py and get their bin/buildout to use this stable 0.6.6. Works

Re: [Distutils] distribute 0.6.6 is out

2009-10-15 Thread kiorky
And virtualenv-distribute was updated at the same time too. Reinout van Rees a écrit : Tarek is off to bed, so I'll throw out a quick mail to bring you all the happy tiding that distribute 0.6.6 is out! So get ready for your easy_install -U distribute. Buildout users can grab

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
Warning: 3 part message. It's all related so I decided to bundle it rather than starting several new threads on the already over-burdened distutils list. On Oct 15, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Now, ssteinerX, what do you mean exactly by shared foundation ? Well, at the moment,

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-15 Thread david . lyon
I really love this stuff.. It's better than soap opera.. We have jerks, interjectors, behind the scenes plots, secret messages, moles and flashbacks.. I'm staying tuned in and hope tomorow's episode will be just as thrilling as todays.. At 02:38 PM 10/15/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com

Re: [Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

2009-10-15 Thread David Cournapeau
David Lyon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:00 +0900, David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote: Let's take a common case: using cython/pyrex to accelerate some code, but you still want people to be able to use your package without a C compiler (bzr, cython are examples of such

Re: [Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

2009-10-15 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:22:20 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: The problem is a bit more complicated, because it cannot be handled in one single section. I really appreciate you sharing this challenge with me. I'm really convinced that I can tweak something to make it work. And now is a really

Re: [Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

2009-10-15 Thread David Cournapeau
David Lyon wrote: You need to detect cython (configuration stage) cython is a type of python interpretor? like jython or ironpython Cython is a language which is more or less a subset of python, with optional typing, and cython is the name of the Cython - C compiler. It is one of the