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

2009-11-01 Thread Georg Brandl
Chris Withers schrieb: Fred Drake wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: setup() ...would get everyone from the static metadata file, while any keyword parameters to setup would override the appropriate setting from the static metadata file...

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

2009-11-01 Thread David Lyon
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:31:46 +0100, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: I think python setup.py install is so idiomatic that it seems silly to break it for the sake of two lines of python. There's also an element of explicit is better than implicit in the feel of actually running

[Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Max Bowsher
New submission from Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com: Trying to determine why pytz installed by easy_install was broken, I located the following problem: When setuptools extracts a tarball source dist to install it, it silently drops any tar members which are neither files or directories. The problem

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

2009-11-01 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:31:46AM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: Chris Withers schrieb: Fred Drake wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: setup() ...would get everyone from the static metadata file, while any keyword parameters to setup

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello Martin, The Distutils-SIG mailing list is hosting several projects (4) which all have their own trackers, and for some their own checking/bugs mailing lists that receive these kind of automatic emails. This makes it possible for the people that want to follow those warning e-mails to

[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.7 released

2009-11-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On behalf of the Distribute team, I am pleased to announce the 0.6.7 release of Distribute. As usual, availabe at PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute Most noticeable changes in 0.6.7 are: - now the develop command supports the --user option, so it can use the per-user site packages

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

2009-11-01 Thread Georg Brandl
Floris Bruynooghe schrieb: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:31:46AM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: Chris Withers schrieb: Fred Drake wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: setup() ...would get everyone from the static metadata file, while any

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
The Distutils-SIG mailing list is hosting several projects (4) which all have their own trackers, and for some their own checking/bugs mailing lists that receive these kind of automatic emails. This makes it possible for the people that want to follow those warning e-mails to register to

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/11/1 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: The Distutils-SIG mailing list is hosting several projects (4) which all have their own trackers, and for some their own checking/bugs mailing lists that receive these kind of automatic emails. This makes it possible for the people that want to

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I have no real clue what you are talking about. The message you've copied is a roundup message from the setuptools tracker, not a warning message of some kind. Yes, that's a warning from the setuptools tracker. I call that a warning because it warns you that someone added an issue in the

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/11/2 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: [...] Ah, ok. That meaning of warning was unknown to me, sorry. That's my translation, so it might be wrong :) [..] It's actually Jeff Rush who is in charge of this tracker instance. I can't change the setup without him agreeing. So, Jeff,

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread P.J. Eby
At 12:01 AM 11/2/2009 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: It's actually Jeff Rush who is in charge of this tracker instance. I can't change the setup without him agreeing. So, Jeff, where else should the roundup instance for setuptools send its notifications? In over 1 year, there are now a grand

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Ben Finney
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/2 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: [...] Ah, ok. That meaning of warning was unknown to me, sorry. That's my translation, so it might be wrong :) “Warning” implies the system is complaining something is wrong. The arrival of a new

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

2009-11-01 Thread David Lyon
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:26:43 +, Floris Bruynooghe Has anyone already suggested something like python -m setup install? It would be rather similar and explicit, too. Actually, I never came across that command line option and had no idea that it even existed. But this is normal, because I

Re: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions

2009-11-01 Thread Jeff Rush
P.J. Eby wrote: At 12:01 AM 11/2/2009 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: It's actually Jeff Rush who is in charge of this tracker instance. I can't change the setup without him agreeing. So, Jeff, where else should the roundup instance for setuptools send its notifications? In over 1 year,

Re: [Distutils] setuptools tracker notifications

2009-11-01 Thread Chris Withers
Jeff Rush wrote: I'm happy with the existing arrangement - I think sending low-traffic bug reports to a separate list is a bad idea because few folk will actually see them. Agreed. Any chance the mail subject could be prefixed with [setuptools] to make it clear which tracker it came from?

Re: [Distutils] setuptools tracker notifications

2009-11-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Any chance the mail subject could be prefixed with [setuptools] to make it clear which tracker it came from? If you want to filter them out (or in a separate folder), I recommend to set your filter for the X-Roundup-Name header. Adding something to the subject is tricky, IIRC. Regards, Martin