Re: [Distutils] numpy's distutils fork circa 2001

2012-11-30 Thread Robert Kern
are probably the best standard for the end result of that process, but eggs or even just bdist_dumb are good enough for most cases. I don't really recall if distutils2's pysetup command quite gets us this far, but it's on the right track. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world

Re: [Distutils] numpy's distutils fork circa 2001

2012-11-29 Thread Robert Kern
way around it until we have such metadata in a declarative, non-executable data file rather than executed code. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying

Re: [Distutils] the 'wheel' binary package format

2012-07-01 Thread Robert Kern
I'd go so far as to force every .whl to have a build number in it, but it would be great if we could figure out a way to have a compatible convention that could include build numbers when needed. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] At least one package management tool for 2.7

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Kern
setuptools changes the behavior of the install command to install .eggs, those packages need extra flags to use pip's preferred flat installs. Using easy_install (with the right flags) yields consistent behavior for all packages. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] At least one package management tool for 2.7

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Kern
setup.py install running install error: error in /Users/rkern/.pydistutils.cfg: command 'install' has no such option 'single_version_externally_managed' Making those warnings instead of errors would probably work. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] At least one package management tool for 2.7

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Kern
'single_version_externally_managed' Please show me a configuration that you have tested. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] At least one package management tool for 2.7

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-03-24 19:56 , P.J. Eby wrote: At 05:27 PM 3/24/2010 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: Since setuptools changes the behavior of the install command to install .eggs, those packages need extra flags to use pip's preferred flat installs. Using easy_install (with the right flags) yields consistent

Re: [Distutils] modules in different folders but under same namespace

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Kern
. import os import pkgutil for subdir in ['src', 'share']: __path__.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), subdir)) -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had

Re: [Distutils] modules in different folders but under same namespace

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-04 11:06 AM, Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-04 10:53 AM, Riccardo-Maria BIANCHI wrote: Hi, I have a package structured like this: package/__init__.py src/ __init__.py mod1.py share/__init__.py mod2.py Now I can import them as: package.src.mod1 package.share.mod2 How can I use

Re: [Distutils] modules in different folders but under same namespace

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Kern
package.src import mod1 from package.share import mod2 Beware though, that this means the modules will be loaded even if import package is called, which could have some unwanted side effects depending on the code. This does not work. You cannot import package.mod1 under this scenario. -- Robert

Re: [Distutils] modules in different folders but under same namespace

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Kern
. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] modules in different folders but under same namespace

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Kern
complicated when simple works? Because simple doesn't work. You cannot do import package.mod1 or from package.mod1 import foo with that scheme. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret

Re: [Distutils] distribute doesn't use pip?

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-01-29 16:03 PM, Tom Davis wrote: File /tmp/easy_install-m7gqed/numpy-1.4.0/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py, line 1668, in add_scripts AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extend' I think I may have fixed it in numpy r8080. -- Robert Kern I have come

Re: [Distutils] distribute doesn't use pip?

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-01-29 16:46 PM, Tom Davis wrote: I downloaded a snapshot, added it to dependency_links, and ran /setup.py install/ again. It threw the same exception. Traceback, please? -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible

Re: [Distutils] distribute doesn't use pip?

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Kern
r8081. I fixed a couple of other places where lists may not be initialized properly. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] distribute doesn't use pip?

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Kern
with Distribute or pip. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG maillist

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

2009-12-22 Thread Robert Kern
(and bizarre), but the desire to convert Windows-platform eggs to .msi or .exe installers is not so rare and does not present the same level of difficulty. The latter is the use case David was referring to, not the one you outlined. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world

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

2009-12-22 Thread Robert Kern
outlined. Why do people want to do that? Can't they build the type of package they want from the source package? Not necessarily on Windows. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret

Re: [Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
. With all respect to Greg Ward and the rest of the original distutils authors, it was a fantastic improvement over the state of affairs ten years ago, but we've learned a lot about application frameworks and about building software since then. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe

Re: [Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
were properly designed. And this doesn't even get into the fact that many of the numpy.distutils command classes that are shared with setuptools are conditional subclasses and probably still buggily cobbled together. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
that the useful knowledge can be extracted from distutils and applied well in a rewrite. The most important useful knowledge is the extension building flags, and I think you have done a good job of transplanting that information into the entirely different build system of SCons. -- Robert Kern I

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
distutils with another package named distutils. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
uninterested in helping you make incremental improvements that are going to break all the hard work we've already done just to get things working as it is. I find that prospect incredibly frustrating. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-11-11 18:48 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: I want to improve Distutils, but not for the price of a complete drop. I don't think the edge cases we are discussing worth it, and I still fail to see why

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
needs to be scratched and rewritten is not going to help. You need to DO it. Pardon us for sincerely answering the questions asked of us. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
hand, I wasn't ignored this time. The discussion is pointless. If you want something better than distutils, do it. David's working on it: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numscons -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/11/12 Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com: The discussion is pointless. If you want something better than distutils, do it. David's working on it: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numscons Enable to use scons within distutils to build extensions I'm confused now

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/11/12 Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com: The discussion is pointless. If you want something better than distutils, do it. David's working on it: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numscons Enable to use scons within distutils to build extensions I'm confused now

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils vs redesigning it (was people want CPAN)

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Kern
*triggers* the problem that the fix is supposed to address. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 -- support for release versions?

2009-11-09 Thread Robert Kern
-info/PyPM.txt. But release numbers are already stored in the PKG_INFO metadata file. Why store it somewhere else? No, they're not. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0241/ -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 -- support for release versions?

2009-11-09 Thread Robert Kern
they're part of http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/ I'll revise my statement back to saying that doing it according to PEP-345 makes the most sense imho. Where? I don't see it. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible

Re: [Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

2009-11-08 Thread Robert Kern
are referring to? -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG maillist

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 -- support for release versions?

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Kern
to mark revisions of the binary packages distinct from the upstream sources. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-27 Thread Robert Kern
on their systems. easy_install does not execute the executable. bdist_wininst installers are zip files concatenated with an executable header. easy_install just unzips the file as if it were a zipped egg and ignores the executable part. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world

Re: [Distutils] Cache PYTHONPATH? (Re: make unzipped eggs be the default)

2009-07-29 Thread Robert Kern
/Versions/Current [Current]$ du -hsc . 1.5G. 1.5Gtotal [Current]$ du -hsc lib/python2.5/site-packages 1.4Glib/python2.5/site-packages 1.4Gtotal -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt

Re: [Distutils] Distutils on embedded devices - was Cache PYTHONPATH? (Re: make unzipped eggs be the default)

2009-07-29 Thread Robert Kern
installation that much. That's not a universally true statement. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] Distutils on embedded devices - was Cache PYTHONPATH? (Re: make unzipped eggs be the default)

2009-07-29 Thread Robert Kern
just not true. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG maillist

Re: [Distutils] Data files with setuptools

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Kern
should be different. READMEs need information like how to install the program. Help text does not. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Re: [Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Kern
implementations in the core that could be overridden by plugins. Then you can have the best of both worlds at the cost of some additional complexity. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret

Re: [Distutils] Help making setuptools install more like plain distutils one

2009-04-20 Thread Robert Kern
. Is there a cleaner version of doing this? You could ensure that you always have a setuptools-based setup.py: python -c import setuptools; execfile('setup.py') install --single-version-. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Robert Kern
processes (at least, not easily). One might use a Makefile or other build tool to build the docs or other assets. So you need a manual way of telling the setup.py file what additional files to include. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: [Distutils] console scripts in distutils

2009-02-14 Thread Robert Kern
subprocesses that import the __main__ of the parent process. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] Solaris and distutils: Need to pass LIBDIR explicitly with -L when building extensions?

2009-01-30 Thread Robert Kern
such a custom --prefix? -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Help with easy_install

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Kern
, LIBPREFIX, ICONPREFIX, icon_size -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils

Re: [Distutils] Simultaneous multi-version support

2008-10-07 Thread Robert Kern
about ours. I typically have multiple versions of things installed, and switch between them, but I never use pkg_resources.require() to do so. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret

Re: [Distutils] Availability of setuptools installer for python2.6?

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Kern
documentation to see if it's in there - it wasn't obvious from reading the contents). Can anyone give me a quick pointer to the explanation? .pyc files are minor-version-specific. Eggs contain .pyc files. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: [Distutils] virtualenv, OS X, and GUIs

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Kern
Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 9 Jan, 2008, at 1:47, Ian Bicking wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Is there an appropriate mailing list for talking about virtualenv? I've run into a problem where virtualenvs on OS X cannot access the screen to run GUIs. I've found a solution that appears to work

Re: [Distutils] Sandbox violation help

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Kern
Dave Peterson wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Dave Peterson wrote: Most of us here are not seeing this error so I'm thinking it isn't something obviously wrong with the setup.py. You can look at the setup.py at : https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/browser/tags/enthought.interpolate_2.0.0b3

Re: [Distutils] Sandbox violation help

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Kern
. The latter is probably best. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] How to easy_install from source package with mingw32 on Windows?

2007-09-12 Thread Robert Kern
that this is desired and safe is probably more magic than it's worth. http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html Use a section in your pydistutils.cfg file like this: [build_ext] compiler=mingw32 -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: [Distutils] How can I get setuptools to include files beyond what find_packages() finds?

2007-07-31 Thread Robert Kern
. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] How can I get setuptools to include files beyond what find_packages() finds?

2007-07-31 Thread Robert Kern
Stanley A. Klein wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Stanley A. Klein wrote: I tried to do something to fix the numpy distutils bdist_rpm.py (by trying to follow what was done in install.py) but it didn't work and I got an error message I didn't understand. I'd like to help, but if you don't copy

Re: [Distutils] How can I get setuptools to include files beyond what find_packages() finds?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Kern
Stanley's emails on the subject, and don't see enough information for me to really pin down the problem. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Re: [Distutils] (no subject)

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Kern
the unpackaged files error looks like. Can you try Phillip's suggestion using --root and --record and show us the results? Did you run python setup.py build before python setup.py bdist_rpm? We've often seen problems with the dependency-handling between distutils commands. -- Robert Kern I have come

Re: [Distutils] Questions regarding the compilation of a non-extension shared library

2007-07-25 Thread Robert Kern
/oof/oof2/index.html Will your code be open source? We have many requests for SUNDIALS wrappers on the scipy list, and it would be great to satisfy them. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt

Re: [Distutils] Docs re debian distributions for pure Python programs?

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Kern
://lists.debian.org/debian-python/ -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Distutils] Parsing setup()

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Kern
probably want to use sys.executable (and the subprocess module if you have Python = 2.4): import subprocess import sys subprocess.call([sys.executable, 'setup.py', 'egg_info']) -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible

Re: [Distutils] automating __version__' ing issues

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Kern
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 04:47 PM 5/15/2007 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: Reading that page, I'm not sure whether you want a scikits namespace package in the first place. A namespace package is used to group several projects under a single owner, ala the various zope

Re: [Distutils] conditionally compiling extensions

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Kern
Lemburg's mx extensions seem to define an mx_autoconf distutils command that might be useful to look at, but I don't know the details about how he uses it. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt

Re: [Distutils] numpy build fails in distutils code

2006-10-14 Thread Robert Kern
will respond to your message. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco ___ Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Kern
that want to provide the appropriate information for egg builds but not (yet) *require* setuptools or egg builds. It means that easy_install somepackage==dev works (a failing of the setupegg.py approach) and allows python setup.py install to work as standard distutils does. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Kern
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 01:31 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: Andrew Straw wrote: Note that matplotlib tried essentially this for a while, but apparently some folks really didn't like it. I'm not sure what exactly broke on their systems (they didn't complain to the mailing list

Re: [Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Kern
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 02:10 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: setuptools-based packages can be forced to install the old-fashioned way using: setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed as long as you also specify a --root directory or a --record

Re: [Distutils] static linking in distutils/setuptools?

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Kern
Stefan Seefeld wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Not really, no. In many cases (e.g., GNU ld), there's simply no way to tell the linker that you prefer static libraries to shared libraries when you are building a shared library like a Python extension. You simply have to make sure that the static

Re: [Distutils] namespace_packages

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Kern
), not filesystem form (matplotlib/toolkits). Correcting them, and adding an empty lib/matplotlib/toolkits/__init__.py to the matplotlib checkout allows me to build eggs with namespace_packages set appropriately. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high

Re: [Distutils] Dynamic linking on Linux, Mac OS, et al

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Kern
Jeff Pitman wrote: Are these just extensions that are imported? Because if they are, then you don't need to mess with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and you can put them anywhere on Linux as long as PYTHONPATH is correct. No, they are things like libpng.so that the extension modules use. -- Robert Kern

Re: [Distutils] Dynamic linking on Linux, Mac OS, et al

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Kern
path. IIRC, this can be a relative path. Bob Ippolito's py2app does this kind of rewriting for making relocatable .app bundles. I'm sure he'll chime in soon, so I'm not entirely sure why I bothered replying myself. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high

Re: [Distutils] Choice of dependencies?

2005-12-03 Thread Robert Kern
be curious to know what P, B and C translate to in real packages. :) P = matplotlib B = Numeric C = numarray D = scipy_core Until everyone ports their stuff to scipy_core, there are still people who need to use numarray or Numeric to be compatible with other packages. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-24 Thread Robert Kern
/... when according to Debian policy and general UNIX lore, such should be placed somewhere in /usr/share/ Would it be possible to treat /usr/share/pythonX.Y-egginfo/ as a proxy for /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ when searching for .egg-info directories? -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Distutils] Non-root install for testing

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Kern
. Preferably there would be one --force option per sanity check and one overall --force that entails all of the others, but I'll take what I can get. I'm willing to work on a patch if given a little guidance as to where all of the sanity checks are. Thank you for your attention. -- Robert Kern

Re: [Distutils] setuptools: site_dirs

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Kern
of site directories in site.addsitepackages(), which is automatically executed through site.main(). If it's not working on your machine, then I think it's a problem with your particular configuration. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils' script and GUI app handling

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Kern
with the other installed packages. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die. -- Richard Harter ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Distutils] Improving distutils' script and GUI app handling

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Kern
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 11:10 AM 9/15/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote: I have a feeling that there isn't a pressing need to be able to install .app bundles from easy_install. If the package maintainer is going to go to the trouble of writing a setup.py that can be used with py2app, he'll almost

Re: [Distutils] question about setuptools

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Kern
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 11:27 PM 9/13/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote: Index: setuptools/command/easy_install.py === RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/sandbox/setuptools/setuptools/command/easy_install.py,v retrieving

Re: [Distutils] question about setuptools

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Kern
by the user! Eureka! Now I just have to figure out a way to find out if --install-dir wasn't set -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die. -- Richard Harter

Re: [Distutils] Adding egg support (Resource API) to existing packages

2005-07-14 Thread Robert Kern
should you bother with this strategy. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die. -- Richard Harter ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http