Re: [Distutils] PEP 517 again

2017-09-05 Thread Chris Barker
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Do the Linux distros use pip to build their packages? > > > > Not that I am aware of. > > Fedora's build macros for Python projects currently rely on running > setup.py directly, but we've been considering switching to

Re: [Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

2017-09-05 Thread xoviat
+1 2017-09-05 3:21 GMT-05:00 Paul Moore : > On 5 September 2017 at 09:00, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should > > not try to deal with it for now: > > > > - Normally, temp files will go in

Re: [Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

2017-09-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 5 September 2017 at 01:36, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >> - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C >> locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8. > > Only in 3.7, I

Re: [Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

2017-09-05 Thread Donald Stufft
> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > Does pip in fact use /tmp for temporary directories? (It's not always > the right choice, because /tmp has limited space on some systems, e.g. > b/c it's on a ramdisk. If we still had build_directory= then this > could

Re: [Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

2017-09-05 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should > not try to deal with it for now: > > - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to > construct paths of entirely ascii

Re: [Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 September 2017 at 09:00, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should > not try to deal with it for now: > > - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to > construct paths of entirely ascii

Re: [Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

2017-09-05 Thread Thomas Kluyver
I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should not try to deal with it for now: - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to construct paths of entirely ascii characters. - Frontends that want the wheel to end up elsewhere can ask for it in a tmp

Re: [Distutils] pythonhosted.org doc upload no longer works

2017-09-05 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
A bare redirect would also be fine. It's a shame setup.py classifiers / metadata does not have a "documentation" field otherwise pythonhosted.org/{project_name} could have automatically redirected to the project doc. Perhaps https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=pkg_edit={project_name} could