Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Withers
Tres Seaver wrote: Huh? Why? I just don't buy this. We've effectively had a bdfl pronouncement that setuptools is dead. distribute 0.6 *is* now the live supported setuptools so any project that relies on the package called setuptools should now be using the distribute distribution... Are you

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-14 Thread kiorky
kiorky a écrit : [] This may be quite current even if it's not a good habit to have circular dependencies between distributions. Imagine that. B(0.7) - A(0.6). A(0.6) - B(0.7). Can i have the same namespace ns shared between the twice distributions with both the setuptools

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-14 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:19 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: kiorky a écrit : [] This may be quite current even if it's not a good habit to have circular dependencies between distributions. Imagine that. B(0.7) - A(0.6). A(0.6) - B(0.7). Can i have the same namespace ns

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-14 Thread kiorky
Tarek Ziadé a écrit : On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:19 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: kiorky a écrit : [] This may be quite current even if it's not a good habit to have circular dependencies between distributions. Imagine that. B(0.7) - A(0.6). A(0.6) - B(0.7). Can i have the

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-13 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-12, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 08:09 AM 10/12/2009 +, Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist I'm pretty grumpy right now. Relax, take a deep breath, and then easy_install

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-13 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-12, Hanno Schlichting ha...@hannosch.eu wrote: Hi. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: - When using buildout, I get lots of warnings.  The 1.4.2 isn't out yet, but I  also won't update all old projects' pinned zc.buildout version so I'm

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-13 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:15 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote: On 2009-10-12, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 08:09 AM 10/12/2009 +, Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist I'm pretty grumpy right now.

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-09, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Huh? Why? I just don't buy this. We've effectively had a bdfl pronouncement that setuptools is dead. distribute 0.6 *is* now the live supported setuptools so any project that relies on the package called setuptools should now be using

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Ben Finney
Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org writes: Time for the BDFL to flip some ownership bits for setuptools in pypi. You appear to think the BDFL has powers outside the Python language and extending to third-party projects that are independent. Regardless of what I think of Setuptools or

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 2009-10-12, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org writes: Time for the BDFL to flip some ownership bits for setuptools in pypi. You appear to think the BDFL has powers outside the Python language and extending to third-party projects that are

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Hi. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: - When using buildout, I get lots of warnings.  The 1.4.2 isn't out yet, but I  also won't update all old projects' pinned zc.buildout version so I'm stuck  with warnings for a time. Note that buildout is only

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: On 2009-10-09, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: AND no, virtualenv must continue to provide setuptools, backward compatibility, you know?

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Withers wrote: Huh? Why? I just don't buy this. We've effectively had a bdfl pronouncement that setuptools is dead. distribute 0.6 *is* now the live supported setuptools so any project that relies on the package called setuptools should

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Greg Ewing
Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist I'm pretty grumpy right now. I'd just like to point out that if anyone finds setuptools to be essential to them, it's because they've chosen to make themselves

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread P.J. Eby
At 08:09 AM 10/12/2009 +, Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist I'm pretty grumpy right now. Relax, take a deep breath, and then easy_install setuptools==dev or setuptools==dev06. ;-) It turned out

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-12 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:35 AM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 08:09 AM 10/12/2009 +, Reinout van Rees wrote: OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist  I'm pretty grumpy right now. Relax, take a deep breath, and

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
kiorky wrote: Hi Lennart, If i read 'virtualenv-distribute 1.3.4.2 on pypi' I can do some googling or even do some Pypi searching for 'virtualenv-distribute'. Thus, the first link found may be [1]. On this link, the second sentence is: The fork was started by Philip Jenvey at

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/9 Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk: Why are there effectively 3 forks on virtualenv now, just to get it to use distribute? Is it really so hard to work with Ian Bicking to be the real virtualenv using distribute instead of setuptools Well I would expect Ian to want to take it a bit

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: kiorky wrote: Hi Lennart, If i read 'virtualenv-distribute 1.3.4.2 on pypi' I can  do some googling or even do some Pypi searching for  'virtualenv-distribute'. Thus, the first link found may be [1]. On this

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread kiorky
Hi Chris, As far as i know, we just give links for power users/developers to know how to find the actual related repositories. It s *CLEARLY* specified *IN THE HOMEPAGE METADATA* that the official thing lives inside florian branch. Those are not 3 forks, but 3 branches or the same code. And the

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: AND no, virtualenv must continue to provide setuptools, backward compatibility, you know? The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk writes: Why are there effectively 3 forks on virtualenv now, just to get it to use distribute? Is it really so hard to work with Ian Bicking to be the real virtualenv using distribute instead of setuptools, especially in the way of the bdfl pronouncement?

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/9 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: I think the word fork  here, in DVCS principles, just means that you copy a repository to work with, and eventually ask for the main repo to merge the changes. Yeah, it's just a branch, basically. But it is hard to get an overview. -- Lennart

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/9 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice it. I guess the point is that is should

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread kiorky
Hi tarek, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice it. Living in my 0.6.x snail sandbox is not a solution. As it seems that Distribute 0.7 won't for a long time. setuptools

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: Hi tarek, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice it. Living in my 0.6.x snail sandbox is not a solution.

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread kiorky
Tarek Ziadé a écrit : On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: Hi tarek, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice it. Living in my 0.6.x snail

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Grönholm
kiorky kirjoitti: Tarek Ziadé a écrit : On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: Hi tarek, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: Why they can't ? As i understood all those readings, packages for 0.6 and 0.7 will be installable with the appropriate distribute version, thus side by side, but for me, they may be incompatibles together. They may be ?

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: I think the word fork here, in DVCS principles, just means that you copy a repository to work with, and eventually ask for the main repo to merge the changes. So what's the main repo? What one of these three options should someone looking to use virtualenv-distribute

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
kiorky wrote: Lennart Regebro a écrit : 2009/10/9 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice it. I guess the point is that is should still work even if you don't want

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread kiorky
Chris Withers a écrit : Tarek Ziadé wrote: I think the word fork here, in DVCS principles, just means that you copy a repository to work with, and eventually ask for the main repo to merge the changes. So what's the main repo? What one of these three options should someone looking to

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread kiorky
Tarek Ziadé a écrit : On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, kiorky kio...@cryptelium.net wrote: And also, to use them together, what a hell. For package A i need 0.6 (hard requirement), for package B i need 0.7 (hard requirement), for C i need 0.6. C depend on A which depends on B. I also have

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Ian Bicking
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: kiorky wrote: Hi Lennart, If i read 'virtualenv-distribute 1.3.4.2 on pypi' I can  do some googling or even do some Pypi searching for  'virtualenv-distribute'. Thus, the first link found may be [1]. On this

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread kiorky
Ian Bicking a écrit : On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: kiorky wrote: I think one (pjenvey) was an experiment, and another is actually a released virtualenv-distribute package (updating the name in setup.py, etc). And the third, I dunno. The

Re: [Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Ian Bicking wrote: I think one (pjenvey) was an experiment, and another is actually a released virtualenv-distribute package (updating the name in setup.py, etc). And the third, I dunno. Anyway -- I'm reluctant to switch virtualenv to distribute right now, as I'm not confident it is ready for