Re: [Distutils] PEP 386 status - last round here ?

2009-11-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Here's another take at a minimal change to the format which includes the things we discussed, adds a few more aliases for the post and dev markers and also adds optional underscores for more readability. VERSION_RE = re.compile(r''' ^ (?Pversion\d+\.\d+) # minimum 'N.N'

Re: [Distutils] PEP 386 status - last round here ?

2009-11-26 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:08:34PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Examples: 3.2.0a0.20091125 3.2.0a1 = 3.2.0_alpha_1 Frankly I find this confusing. I'm fine with 'alpha' being a synonym for 'a' but the underscores just confuse things IMHO. 3.2.0a1.20091125 3.2.0rc1 = 3.2.0c1

Re: [Distutils] PEP 386 status - last round here ?

2009-11-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/11/26 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: I am +1 for keeping the intuitive writing for the pre-release cycle. s/for the pre-release cycle./before the pre-release cycle starts/ ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org

[Distutils] zc.buildout usage in the real world

2009-11-26 Thread Alex Rades
Hi, I'm currently working on a project based on django, together with a dozen of external libraries. Often I am in one of these scenarios: - I discover bugs in an external libraries, and i fix them, but the upstream author is busy and I need to deploy the fix ASAP. So I produce a patch. - I have

Re: [Distutils] zc.buildout usage in the real world

2009-11-26 Thread Chris Withers
Alex Rades wrote: The approach I've used so far has been setting up a private pypi-compatible repository, and recreate packages which fit my needs. But it really feels like killing an ant with a sledgehammer. I don't understand if there is a better way to: - Patch packages before installing -

Re: [Distutils] zc.buildout usage in the real world

2009-11-26 Thread Kevin Teague
mr.developer is a good recipe that could help with this, check it out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mr.developer The buildout below will auto-checkout django-debug-toolbar from your fork when buildout is run (replace 'myapp' with your apps name of course, and have django-debug-toolbar in the

Re: [Distutils] PEP 386 status - last round here ?

2009-11-26 Thread P.J. Eby
At 07:55 PM 11/26/2009 +, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:08:34PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Examples: 3.2.0a0.20091125 3.2.0a1 = 3.2.0_alpha_1 Frankly I find this confusing. I'm fine with 'alpha' being a synonym for 'a' but the underscores just confuse things

Re: [Distutils] zc.buildout usage in the real world

2009-11-26 Thread kiorky
Alex Rades a écrit : Hi, Which is very very handy, it handles all my use case in a compact and nice way. The minitage.recipe.scripts is nice but is not widely used, But supported by a company which will do not switch for another recipes. We deploy on various systems, that's why we