Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I know that the issue tracker for PyPI is (still) on SF, but development appear to happen elsewhere and I can't find any contact information on the PyPI web pages. PyPI discussion takes place mostly on catalog-sig. Ok, then I'll sign up there. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
David Lyon wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:57 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: One could say that much of the setuptools cloud came about because of the lack of the queryable download url. Setuptools does a lot of work here to 'work-around' the ommission on pypi of a package

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: I know that the issue tracker for PyPI is (still) on SF, but development appear to happen elsewhere and I can't find any contact information on the PyPI web pages. Everything is provided here:

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: I know that the issue tracker for PyPI is (still) on SF, but development appear to happen elsewhere and I can't find any contact information on the PyPI web pages. Everything is provided here:

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I know that the issue tracker for PyPI is (still) on SF, but development appear to happen elsewhere and I can't find any contact information on the PyPI web pages. PyPI discussion takes place mostly on catalog-sig. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
David Lyon wrote: On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:29 +0100, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Well yeah, and the only sane way I can think to handle this is to have a metadata file that gets uploaded with each distribution that covers all these things (and the other things that other

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: BTW: Who would I need to contact for the PyPI side to work out an upload_url distutils command ? I am not sure to understand. How upload_url will differ from the register command that let you upload

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: BTW: Who would I need to contact for the PyPI side to work out an upload_url distutils command ? I am not sure to understand. How upload_url will differ from the register command that let you upload metadata at PyPI ? Tarek

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:38 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: BTW: Who would I need to contact for the PyPI side to work out an upload_url distutils command ? I am not sure to understand. How

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:38 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: BTW: Who would I need to contact for the PyPI side to work out an upload_url distutils command ? I am not sure to

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-08 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:57 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: One could say that much of the setuptools cloud came about because of the lack of the queryable download url. Setuptools does a lot of work here to 'work-around' the ommission on pypi of a package download url. I think

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
David Lyon wrote: Distutils for windows is very, very dead.. grave-ware in-fact. Now that is not true at all. We have a native Windows installer (bdist_wininst) and an MSI builder (bdist_msi) that both work great on Windows. Plus there are add-ons for other installers such as NSIS and

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Arc Riley arcriley at gmail.com writes: Is the intention of Pypi really to turn it into a social networking site?  Sure, why not? It's not like there are enough social networking sites nowadays, are there? :) Regards Antoine. ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-07 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:29 +0100, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Well yeah, and the only sane way I can think to handle this is to have a metadata file that gets uploaded with each distribution that covers all these things (and the other things that other people need) and then

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
Nick Coghlan wrote: Really? I can understand package owners not being able to add recommendations for their own packages, but if they can't add comments how are they meant to correct misunderstandings or redirect inappropriate messages to the correct forums? Indeed, yet another reason I would

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: We've implemented our own bdist_egg now which doesn't use setuptools and will start to ship eggs in addition to our prebuilt format with the next releases. Egg-cellent ;-) Any chance this tool is open source? Better yet, could it make its way into distutils asap? Chris

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass. Why am I not surprised? Actually Plohn, there aren't that many Zope developers left ;-) Chris - looking mournfully at his sig... -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing Python Consulting

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Chris Withers wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: We've implemented our own bdist_egg now which doesn't use setuptools and will start to ship eggs in addition to our prebuilt format with the next releases. Egg-cellent ;-) Any chance this tool is open source? Better yet, could it make its way

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: mxSetup.py, the module implementing all our distutils extensions, is available in egenix-mx-base which is open source: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ I have memories of mxBase having a load of other stuff in it too? Would it be possible to split

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Arc Riley
I'll make the argument that feedback is useful, comments are much less so and a lot more work. It would be more useful to allow package users post feedback, visible only to the package maintainer, and also add support for bugtracker links/etc. Is the intention of Pypi really to turn it into a

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:11 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Senthil Kumaran wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:43:22AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea:    no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Chris Withers wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: mxSetup.py, the module implementing all our distutils extensions, is available in egenix-mx-base which is open source: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ I have memories of mxBase having a load of other stuff in it too? Yep, lots of

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Would it be possible to split just the distutils extensions into their own package and get that package as an sdist on PyPI? Nope. shame :-( The complicated stuff does belong somewhere else, but the basic things need to go into the filename But everyone's basic

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Chris Withers wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: The complicated stuff does belong somewhere else, but the basic things need to go into the filename But everyone's basic things are different. The really basic stuff is the same for everyone since it's dictated by the way Python works on computers

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread P.J. Eby
At 03:18 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Note how the package name is mangled... easy_install requires this. The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for a UCS2 Python build. Again, easy_install fails with that information added to the py2.6 version marker. Btw, every

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread P.J. Eby
At 06:03 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Chris Withers wrote: Well yeah, and the only sane way I can think to handle this is to have a metadata file that gets uploaded with each distribution that covers all these things (and the other things that other people need) and then have the

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
P.J. Eby wrote: At 03:18 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Note how the package name is mangled... easy_install requires this. The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for a UCS2 Python build. Again, easy_install fails with that information added to the py2.6 version

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
P.J. Eby wrote: At 06:03 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: It goes a bit in the direction of what we had in mind with writing for our clients: a tool that looks at the Python installation and automatically finds/downloads/installs the right package from our website. Only that we wanted

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread P.J. Eby
At 10:17 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: P.J. Eby wrote: At 06:03 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: It goes a bit in the direction of what we had in mind with writing for our clients: a tool that looks at the Python installation and automatically finds/downloads/installs the

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-06 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:52:34 -0400, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Btw, every couple years or so I've sent out a call on the distutils-SIG to try to get consensus on a format for the platform tag information used by setuptools. (The first time was before easy_install even existed.)

[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) /F ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Finney
Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com writes: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) Heh. If harsh, uninformed responses make you wonder whether

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:43:22AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) Greetings effbot. :) As you might already

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass. Why am I not surprised? /F On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's reviews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea:   no egg - worst seen ever, remove it

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Fred Drake
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass.  Why am I not surprised? Actually, most of us Zope developers prefer sdist packages, not eggs. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.fdrake at gmail.com

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass. Why am I not surprised? Tarring an entire community for the actions of one twit is more than a little unfair. It's fine that you don't like eggs and it's fine that you don't want to provide them. There's a

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass. Why am I not surprised? /F On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's reviews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg -

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
He's not the first one from the Zope community (whatever that is) that's behaved this way on this specific topic. The problem here is that a certain (marginal) user community decides to standardize on a certain distribution model, and then goes off attacking people who've released stuff *before*

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Jens W. Klein
Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 13:07 +0200 schrieb Christian Heimes: Fredrik Lundh wrote: Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass. Why am I not surprised? /F On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's reviews like this

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea:   no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) /F Unfortunately; we're now

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Olemis Lang
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Jens W. Klein j...@bluedynamics.com wrote: Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 13:07 +0200 schrieb Christian Heimes: Fredrik Lundh wrote: Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass.  Why am I not surprised? On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM,

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Senthil Kumaran wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:43:22AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) Greetings effbot. :)

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Jesse Noller schrieb: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) /F

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Jesse Noller schrieb: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea:   no egg - worst seen ever, remove it

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Jesse Noller schrieb: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com wrote: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Fred Drake
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: User ratings and comments are the future for app store style sites such as PyPI Interestingly, I consider sites like PyPI as developer resources rather than the more end-user-centric App Store sites. While I don't

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Fredrik Lundh fred...@pythonware.com writes: it's revews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is a good idea: no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) Heh. If harsh,

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Jesse Noller schrieb: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Olemis Lang
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: [...] User ratings and comments are the future for app store style sites such as PyPI, and spam unfortunately comes with the terrain. There are

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
Doug Hellmann wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Ben Finney wrote: If you *want* to respond, you can politely direct them to URL:http://docs.python.org/install/ where they can learn how to install Python distributions — no mention of eggs at all. Package owners are not allowed to comment on

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fred Drake wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: User ratings and comments are the future for app store style sites such as PyPI Interestingly, I consider sites like PyPI as developer resources rather than the more end-user-centric App Store sites.

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Fred Drake
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: When it comes to comments and recommendations for selecting software packages, developers *are* the end users :) Yes, most certainly. But developers as consumers are very different from application users as consumers, which

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Olemis Lang
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Fred Drake fdr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: When it comes to comments and recommendations for selecting software packages, developers *are* the end users :) Yes, most certainly.  But developers as

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Olemis Lang
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Olemis Lang ole...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Fred Drake fdr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: When it comes to comments and recommendations for selecting software packages,

Re: [Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

2009-10-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
* Moderation [...] * Flagging as spam * Captcha ? In the specific case, neither would have helped. a) the user making the comment that the package author felt to be impolite was a real user, with an established, well-known identity, and long-time member of the community (IIUC). That didn't