Re: [Distutils] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Carlos Tejo Alonso carlos.t...@fundacionctic.org wrote: Hello, Hello Carlos, - How can be configured the version of the metadata (AFAIK, rigth it is always Metadata-Version: 1.0)? I would like to use version 1.1 (PEP 314. status: final) [2] or version 1.2

[Distutils] setup.py build_ext --rpath behaviour

2009-04-16 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
Hello Distutils allows you to use a handy --rpath option to the build_ext command to add an RPATH value into the linked object. However some of the semantics are not great IMHO. For the first issue some background first. On SysV-like systems (systems using the ELF binary format) the RPATH

Re: [Distutils] setup.py build_ext --rpath behaviour

2009-04-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com wrote: Do these improvements sound sensible?  And if so should I create one patch for each (and two bug reports) or combine them into one patch? They sound reasonable, please fill two differents bugs with your

Re: [Distutils] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Carlos Tejo Alonso carlos.t...@fundacionctic.org wrote: Anyway, thanks for the link. About license classifiers, how can be define that the version of tht LGPL of the package is the version 3? I don't see it in the list (just LGPL without any version detail),

Re: [Distutils] Building eggs of Numpy for Python 2.4 on Win32

2009-04-16 Thread Jon Wright
Fadhley Salim wrote: Has anybody managed to build an egg from the Numpy official release binaries? Unzip the superpack exe file (using something like 7-zip file manager). Choose one of the 3 exe installers inside there, extract it and use that. The nosse version probably works slowly on

[Distutils] Distutils and easy_install...

2009-04-16 Thread Douglas Mayle
Hey everyone, I'm having an annoying problem and I was directed here to see if you knew what could be done. I'm using distutils for my package instead of setuptools because it's a command line app, and the half second that setup tools adds to each launch for pkg_resource scanning is

Re: [Distutils] Distutils and easy_install...

2009-04-16 Thread P.J. Eby
At 01:03 PM 4/16/2009 -0400, Douglas Mayle wrote: Hey everyone, I'm having an annoying problem and I was directed here to see if you knew what could be done. I'm using distutils for my package instead of setuptools because it's a command line app, and the half second that

Re: [Distutils] Distutils and easy_install...

2009-04-16 Thread Douglas Mayle
Sorry, I meant to send this onlist. Reposting: In the end, after some great suggestions and debugging help from Ian Bicking, I managed to monkeypatch the monkeypatch to restore my original script. I was using a hybrid approach (sometimes importing distutils, sometimes setuptools) to

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I don't see it in the list (just LGPL without any version detail), I am ccing this request to catalog-sig so they can add it if they think it's wise How should this be done? As a separate classifier with the suffix v3, or as a subclassifier of LGPL? Regards, Martin

[Distutils] Fixing the mess in sdist/egg_info

2009-04-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hi, I am back on that problem with the code that builds the file list. The current Distutils trunk isn't working anymore with setuptools because of a recursive loop: distutils.sdist.run() - setuptools.build_py.data_files - setuptools.egg_info.run() - distutils.sdist.add_defaults() -

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/4/16 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: I don't see it in the list (just LGPL without any version detail), I am ccing this request to catalog-sig so they can add it if they think it's wise How should this be done? As a separate classifier with the suffix v3, or as a subclassifier of

Re: [Distutils] Fixing the mess in sdist/egg_info

2009-04-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hi, I am back on that problem with the code that builds the file list. The current Distutils trunk isn't working anymore with setuptools because of a recursive loop: distutils.sdist.run() - setuptools.build_py.data_files - setuptools.egg_info.run() -

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - install/uninstall script in Distutils ?

2009-04-16 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Kevin Teague ke...@bud.ca wrote: -1 for install/uninstall scripts in Distutils I'd argue that the scope of Distutils is already wide enough that it doesn't need to be extended to also be a package manager -- even if it's a really simple one. If a

Re: [Distutils] Making commands extensible by default

2009-04-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello, This is a side discussion but quiet important ihmo. == Problem == Some people complained about the fact that is was hard to extend Distutils commands. You end up rewriting the whole command most of the time. So what's a command ? It's a class that is used

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 - install/uninstall script in Distutils ?

2009-04-16 Thread Ian Bicking
OK, just thinking through a little what it would mean to have an installation tool in Python core... On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: But then I don't think Python should have a built-in installer or package manager. There are excellent tools already

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-16 Thread René Dudfield
hellos, Is it just me, or are these classifiers not as good as tags? Should people really have to discuss and get approved what tags they put on their software? Seems like a big waste of everyones time, and doesn't result in as good a database. cheers, 2009/4/17 Tarek Ziadé

Re: [Distutils] Making commands extensible by default

2009-04-16 Thread David Cournapeau
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello, This is a side discussion but quiet important ihmo. == Problem == Some people complained about the fact that is was hard to extend Distutils commands. You end up rewriting the whole command most of the time. So what's a command ?