Re: [Distutils] Common version-comparison semantics for peace love and harmony

2009-11-29 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:05 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 09:41 AM 11/28/2009 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: That's completely wrong, the proposal is a benefit for all of us, because it standardizes something that is already being done. You seem to have misunderstood me; I'm

Re: [Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com writes: How about making it Change-Log in that case, and have the content of the changelog directly added in the metadata ? Rather than an url. That might be good, if the changelog was in a separate file. It's quite commonly a very long text file, as it

Re: [Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

2009-11-29 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com writes: How about making it Change-Log in that case, and have the content of the changelog directly added in the metadata ?  Rather than an url. That might be good, if the

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

2009-11-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
P.J. Eby wrote: At 08:11 PM 11/28/2009 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: 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

Re: [Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: [having the changelog in the package metadata] might be good, if the changelog was in a separate file. It's quite commonly a very long text file, as it retains the

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

2009-11-29 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/11/29 M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com: [..] Please don't add underscores to the syntax -- they will cause problems with the filename escaping and parsing used today by setuptools and compatible tools, and will produce inconsistent comparisons between rational versions and the version

Re: [Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

2009-11-29 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: [having the changelog in the package metadata] might be good, if the changelog was in a

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

2009-11-29 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/11/29 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com: [..] WSGI and setuptools have been widely adopted in spite of their technical and ideological flaws, because they had good incentive engineering. Or, in other words, because practicality beats purity, every single time. Do you mean here that this

Re: [Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Stick to a simple standard of “this file contains the changelog”, which will let people simply move their existing changelog of whatever format into that file. Having

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

2009-11-29 Thread P.J. Eby
At 09:15 PM 11/29/2009 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: 2009/11/29 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com: [..] WSGI and setuptools have been widely adopted in spite of their technical and ideological flaws, because they had good incentive engineering. Or, in other words, because practicality beats