Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone wants to work on it, or comment, Some comments: MANIFEST.in is fine Except that it introduces Yet Another Domain Specific Language. Wtf

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:21, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of a pure python description. Then people strongly objected. How many people objected? Would it be OK to only have support for this in an external

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:21, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of a pure python description. Then people strongly objected. How many people

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:03, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: But I will not work in flame-threads anymore on my side. Probably a good idea. The only thing I'm worried about is the fact that you are proposing both to remove and add things to distutils. Although backports will be

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:03, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: But I will not work in flame-threads anymore on my side. Probably a good idea. The only thing I'm worried about is the fact that you are proposing

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 13:01, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think we want to break any current feature in 2.7, we will probably just display deprecation warnings and keep them, then wait until the next python version. And if someone want to use your package, that uses a new

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone wants to work on it, or comment, Some comments: MANIFEST.in is fine

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 14:23, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: I want *less* stuff (ideally nothing) spelled in imperative Python, with some common declarative file replacing both the information currently in setup.py and MANIFEST.in.  I thought we were in agreement that

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread David Cournapeau
Tres Seaver wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone wants to work on it, or comment, Some comments: MANIFEST.in is fine Except that it

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread P.J. Eby
At 02:33 PM 4/8/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 14:23, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: I want *less* stuff (ideally nothing) spelled in imperative Python, with some common declarative file replacing both the information currently in setup.py and MANIFEST.in.

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone wants to work on it, or comment, Some comments: MANIFEST.in is fine Except that it introduces Yet Another Domain Specific Language. Wtf does prune mean? It's not obvious. The docs indicate that it actually