Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
Thomas Güttler writes: > Let's look back. How was this in the past? Maybe five years ago? That's a very vague question. What kind of answer do you want? Is it one you have an answer for already; and if so, what is the point of your question here? I don't doubt

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-10 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 08.04.2017 um 01:51 schrieb Wes Turner: AFAIU, the only way to read the package version from the {git, hg, } source repository is to run the setup.py. I see. This is the only way at the moment. Let's look back. How was this in the past? Maybe five years ago? Regards, Thomas

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-07 Thread Wes Turner
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > > >> Chances are, there will be a package or two that you rely on that is not >>> in conda defaults (maintained by Continuum) or currently in

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-07 Thread Chris Barker
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > Chances are, there will be a package or two that you rely on that is not >> in conda defaults (maintained by Continuum) or currently in conda-forge. So >> you can pip-install those few -- but what if they aren't on PyPi

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-06 Thread Wes Turner
On Thursday, April 6, 2017, Chris Barker wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Nick Coghlan > wrote: > > >> PayPal Engineering put together a decent write-up of their path >> towards adopting that

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-06 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > PayPal Engineering put together a decent write-up of their path > towards adopting that model last year: > https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2016/09/07/python-packaging-at-paypal/ Thanks for that link. We're a much

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 April 2017 at 01:52, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: >> On Mar 30, 2017, at 1:53 AM, Thomas Güttler >> wrote: >> >> >> My frustration has reached a limit. Yes, I am willing to pay money. >> >> Which vendor do you suggest to give me a

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-04-05 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> On Mar 30, 2017, at 1:53 AM, Thomas Güttler > wrote: > > > My frustration has reached a limit. Yes, I am willing to pay money. > > Which vendor do you suggest to give me a reliable package management? You may want conda -- it's an open source project, and you can

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-03-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 March 2017 at 18:53, Thomas Güttler wrote: > Am 29.03.2017 um 10:27 schrieb Nick Coghlan: >> The Python ecosystem *does* include commercial vendors that offer to >> make opinionated technical decisions on behalf of their customers, as >> well as providing a

[Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

2017-03-30 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 29.03.2017 um 10:27 schrieb Nick Coghlan: On 29 March 2017 at 17:51, Paul Moore wrote: On 29 March 2017 at 06:29, Thomas Güttler wrote: I am stupid and missing a guiding hand which gives me simple straight forward step by step