Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Setuptools + Subversion 1.6 - new setuptools release necessary

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Withers
Andreas Jung wrote: it is known that the latest setuptools version produces broken packages with SVN 1.6 checkouts. Could we get a fixed setuptools version asap - fixing this issue is essential (there is some patch floating around). I think you meant this to go to the distutils sig... Chris

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Setuptools + Subversion 1.6 - new setuptools release necessary

2009-04-28 Thread Andreas Jung
On 28.04.2009 14:51 Uhr, Chris Withers wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: it is known that the latest setuptools version produces broken packages with SVN 1.6 checkouts. Could we get a fixed setuptools version asap - fixing this issue is essential (there is some patch floating around). I think you

Re: [Distutils] General Question... .EGGs... a ny good?

2009-04-28 Thread P.J. Eby
At 01:52 AM 4/28/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote: Are source distributions (ie distutils) competitive with .EGG packaging? Yes. Really the main reason to distribute egg files is if you want end-users to be able to download a single file as a plugin for your application, or certain other

Re: [Distutils] RFC : Version comparison

2009-04-28 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:12:22AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: We worked during Pycon on version comparisons. Distutils has one but it is a bit strict, setuptools has another one, but it's a bit heuristic. We would like to propose the inclusion for Python 2.7 of a new version comparison

Re: [Distutils] RFC : Version comparison

2009-04-28 Thread Trent Mick
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/VersionComparison I find the dot separating the 1.0 from dev in 1.0.dev456 unappealing.  Why was it added? I believe the consensus at the PyCon open spaces was that it separated better in general. For example: 1.0a2.1dev1234 1.0a2.1.dev1234 I'm