Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:39 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the files (e.g. setuptools/archive_util.py) are only different by a bit of whitespace. archive_util, in the mid term (2.7/3.2) will dissapear, in favor of changes in Distutils side. In taking a closer

[Distutils] Distribute 0.7.x first sprint

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hey While we are working at fixing bugs in 0.6.x, I would like to organize a first online coding sprint for the 0.7.x series, goals: - finalize the first splitting version - define a more detailed roadmap for each splitted package - build a better test environment (see if we can set up a

[Distutils] small distribute improvement

2009-10-16 Thread Neal Becker
I think it is confusing that easy_install blah doesn't do anything, and doesn't provide any clue, if it was to do an update. You need to say easy_install -U blah There are a few choices here. One might be that easy_install blah could notify you that an update is available. Personally, my

Re: [Distutils] small distribute improvement

2009-10-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/16 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com: I think it is confusing that easy_install blah doesn't do anything, and doesn't provide any clue, if it was to do an update. Was to do? It doesn't know that there is an update available, unless you ask it to check. It does tell you that it's

[Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hey, Marc-André Lemburg gave me a key points about the static metadata discussions we have (wether its PEP 390 or around it) He said that the important thing was to have the context-dependant markers in PKG-INFO, and that having in described in setup.cfg or in setup.py by any way is not the

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: Shouldn't this point at PEP 345, which already defines a metadata version 1.2? Right sorry, I messed up with the PEPs numbers. PEP 314 is the final 1.1, and PEP 345 is the draft for 1.2, where we should work to change

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-16 Thread P.J. Eby
At 10:46 AM 10/16/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know that I'd call what I saw designed. Complex, yes, but design implies a plan and known direction, communicated by design documents with tests that prove the code is working as expected. This is not designed by any objective

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 11:41 AM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 10:46 AM 10/16/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know that I'd call what I saw designed. Complex, yes, but design implies a plan and known direction, communicated by design documents with tests that prove the code is working as

Re: [Distutils] small distribute improvement

2009-10-16 Thread Ned Deily
In article hb9kte$ct...@ger.gmane.org, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is confusing that easy_install blah doesn't do anything, and doesn't provide any clue, if it was to do an update. You need to say easy_install -U blah There are a few choices here. One might be

[Distutils] setuptools 0.6c10 delayed until Monday

2009-10-16 Thread P.J. Eby
After giving it some thought, I've decided to hold off on pushing out the 0.6c10 release until Monday morning, since it's likely that some people have scripts or build processes that run off of ez_setup SVN or the latest PyPI version of setuptools... and who aren't aware the release is coming

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: Jannis Leidel jan...@leidel.info writes: That'd be very much appreciated, I'm sure the experience of the distribute people would be helpful, too. I'm not sure I quite approve of their approach, since it makes installing Distribute

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/16 sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com: Doesn't that also mean that the Python 3 version of Distribute is generated live on the installation system? That is absolutely true.  That doesn't seem right because that leaves the possibility that the code generated by 2to3 is different

Re: [Distutils] small distribute improvement

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Bicking
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is confusing that easy_install blah doesn't do anything, and doesn't provide any clue, if it was to do an update.  You need to say easy_install -U blah There are a few choices here.  One might be that

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: I'm going to cross-post this to the distutils list as well. If the idea is to stabilize Distribute, get some tests in place, etc. then this method of distribution (running 2to3 in situ, as it were) is not the correct way to do it from

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Bicking
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: Marc-André Lemburg gave me a key points about the static metadata discussions we have (wether its PEP 390 or around it) He said that the important thing was to have the context-dependant markers in PKG-INFO, and that

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bicking wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: Marc-André Lemburg gave me a key points about the static metadata discussions we have (wether its PEP 390 or around it) He said that the important thing

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: I'm going to cross-post this to the distutils list as well. If the idea is to stabilize Distribute, get some tests in place, etc. then this method of

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: I'm going to cross-post this to the distutils list as well. If the idea is to stabilize Distribute, get some tests

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread exarkun
On 06:33 pm, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: I'm going to cross-post this to the distutils list as well. If the idea is

Re: [Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 3:56 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: Buildbots seem to be in short supply though they should be easy enough to come by in this day and age of penny-an-hour cloud computing. I think I'll see if maybe I can just whip up something about this... Not sure if you're

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:29 +0200, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: But what really matters at the end is to provide a new Metadata format where these marker are present, so any consumer can play with them (and Distutils provide an API to play with them : the DistributionMetadata

[Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
I've just downloaded and configured the Distribute buildbot and it appears that a dependency is missing somewhere. I get this (just the errors excerpted). Just wanted to capture this before I figure out what needs to be done... test_make_tarball

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Nathan Yergler
Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with zlib support (--with-zlib, IIRC). 2009/10/16 sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com: I've just downloaded and configured the Distribute buildbot and it appears that a dependency is missing somewhere.  I get this (just the

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Nathan Yergler wrote: Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with zlib support (--with-zlib, IIRC). Right -- that's the python that the buildbot compiled from source, that's why it's a bug ;-). S

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nathan Yergler nat...@creativecommons.org wrote: Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with zlib support (--with-zlib, IIRC). 2009/10/16 sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com: I've just downloaded and configured the Distribute

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bicking wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: Marc-André Lemburg gave me a key points about the static metadata discussions

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nathan Yergler nat...@creativecommons.org wrote: Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with zlib support (--with-zlib, IIRC). 2009/10/16 sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com: I've

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote:  Requires: (linux-suse-kde-64) foo How this expression would be verified on the target system ? Regards Tarek ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Nathan Yergler wrote: Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with zlib support (--with-zlib, IIRC). Right -- that's the python that the buildbot compiled from

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:13 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nathan Yergler nat...@creativecommons.org wrote: Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with zlib

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: IOW the way python is built in the bbot, is now using your system's zlib support... Arggg... I am the typo master... s/now/not. So as Tres said maybe Ubuntu ships with a Python with zlib support, but doesn't provide

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:13 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Nathan Yergler nat...@creativecommons.org wrote: Looks like you're using a

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: IOW the way python is built in the bbot, is now using your system's zlib support... Arggg... I am the typo master... s/now/not. So as Tres said maybe Ubuntu ships

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:15:25 +0200, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote:  Requires: (linux-suse-kde-64) foo How this expression would be verified on the target system ? I'm working on coding it. Basically the

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:38 AM, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote:   # -- See what our platform is   def build_platform_bit_map():       if sys.platform == 'darwin':           self.platform_bits['mac'] = True           # -- Further sub-bit determination           ..       else

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:39 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: IOW the way python is built in the bbot, is now using your system's zlib support...

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:39 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: IOW the way python is built in the

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-16 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-16, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 10:46 AM 10/16/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: This is not designed by any objective standard I'd use. You are correct; setuptools itself was not particularly designed. Eggs are, entry points are, a few other odds and ends were

Re: [Distutils] Proposal for Distribute 0.7

2009-10-16 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote: On 2009-10-16, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 10:46 AM 10/16/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: This is not designed by any objective standard I'd use. You are correct; setuptools itself was not particularly designed.

Re: [Distutils] [RFC] Recentering the static metadata need : PKG-INFO

2009-10-16 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:53:48 +0200, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: So far.. so good. It's basically what we proposed earlier in PEP 390, but for the distribution, the desktop (kde, etc)... .. That would require a new stdlib module that would be very hard to implement and maintain

Re: [Distutils] setuptools 0.6c10 delayed until Monday

2009-10-16 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-16, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Also, this will give those who are using Distribute and do *not* wish to use this release, a chance to upgrade to the latest version of Distribute first. (Which, if I understand correctly, includes code to prevent accidental

Re: [Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

2009-10-16 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: So as Tres said maybe Ubuntu ships with a Python with zlib support, but doesn't provide zlib headers. Ok, so the python you build from the trunk checkout doesn't have