Re: [Distutils] Distribute testing

2009-12-20 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: [..]        While this approach will be fine when we move it to building on-demand buildbots, it is much too time consuming both in development time and real-time processing to use for this release cycle.  It

[Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

2009-12-20 Thread Steffen Mueller
It'll be no secret to anyone reading this that there has been a lot of discussion recently about a CPAN equivalent for Python, sparked by Guido's People want CPAN post to the python-distutils-devel list. I read a good chunk of the thread back in November and have been meaning to add my blurb

Re: [Distutils] Distribute testing

2009-12-20 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 20, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: [..] While this approach will be fine when we move it to building on-demand buildbots, it is much too time consuming both in development time and

Re: [Distutils] Packaging of files, which aren't in the package root folder

2009-12-20 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
I found a simpler way to do this - Is there any drawback if I try to solve this problem using this way: dist = setup(name='series60-remote', [...] scripts=['series60-remote'] ) # HACK! Copy extra files if dist.have_run.get('install'): install =

Re: [Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

2009-12-20 Thread David Lyon
Hi Steffen, On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:21:04 + (UTC), Steffen Mueller smuel...@cpan.org wrote: It'll be no secret to anyone reading this that there has been a lot of discussion recently about a CPAN equivalent for Python, sparked by Guido's People want CPAN post to the python-distutils-devel

Re: [Distutils] Packaging of files, which aren't in the package root folder

2009-12-20 Thread P.J. Eby
At 08:44 PM 12/20/2009 +0100, Lukas Hetzenecker wrote: I found a simpler way to do this - Is there any drawback if I try to solve this problem using this way: Yes. The --record option to the install command will be broken (due to not including the directly-copied files). (And that's only