Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-09 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:42 AM, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:33 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 06:10 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: On 2010-02-05, at

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:20 AM, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote: [..] But that's a lot of work that will not happen in 2.7. Here, the attempt is not to correct distutils design flaw about building things (e.g. the fact that install is also a build command in some way), but rather

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-07 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:26:28PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: I still have that in mind. In fact one of the sprints task in Pycon could be to create a configure command for distutils (like what 4suite has) (I've pointed you to the repo where I am have started a prototype for this in a recent

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-06 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:33 AM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 06:10 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: On 2010-02-05, at 4:57 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 04:49 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: Do we have a real-world example for installing uninstallable data

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-06 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:42 AM, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:33 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 06:10 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: On 2010-02-05, at 4:57 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 04:49 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:16 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hi all, sorry for joining in so late. I am pretty busy with my thesis and examinations, which is why I can't work on this right now. I am still subscribed to python-distutils and read the mails regularly, so there is no need to CC me.

[Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hi, The part that still requires some work is how to handle files prefixes in the RECORD file. Last time we said that we could benefit of having a PREFIXES file. Then Wolojda started to work on a much more complete solution to track data file locations :

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi Tarek, Tarek Ziadé wrote: The part that still requires some work is how to handle files prefixes in the RECORD file. Last time we said that we could benefit of having a PREFIXES file. Then Wolojda started to work on a much more complete

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Carl Meyer c...@meyerloewen.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi Tarek, Tarek Ziadé wrote: The part that still requires some work is how to handle files prefixes in the RECORD file. Last time we said that we could benefit of having a

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tarek, I fully admit that I'm not cognizant of all the internal intricacies of distutils, in particular the bdist_* stuff, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. I just have experience trying to make uninstall work in pip. Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread P.J. Eby
At 01:39 PM 2/5/2010 -0500, Carl Meyer wrote: What if RECORD allowed either absolute paths or paths relative to the location of .egg-info, but nothing else? That would preserve the option for application authors to make relocatable self-contained installations, while keeping RECORD simple and

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On 2010-02-05, at 4:57 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 04:49 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: Do we have a real-world example for installing uninstallable data files outside sys.prefix? Scripts aren't always in sys.prefix, Scripts *usually* go to sys.prefix/bin (or sys.prefix/Scripts

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread P.J. Eby
At 06:10 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: On 2010-02-05, at 4:57 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 04:49 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: Do we have a real-world example for installing uninstallable data files outside sys.prefix? Scripts aren't always in sys.prefix, Scripts

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

2010-02-05 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:33 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 06:10 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: On 2010-02-05, at 4:57 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: At 04:49 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: Do we have a real-world example for installing uninstallable data