On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > The Python conference scene seems to love testing, so if you can make a > > case > > for Debian and quality assurance, and Debian has done things popular with > > this crowd for years like automated builds and the use of very strict > > package > > building tools that won't let you build without a precise specification of > > the build dependencies, then that may appeal to some people.
> ^^ this is a great idea. It'd be nice if we could prototype a flake8 / > pyflakes run against the archive, and filter for serious errors I thought to provide stats on how many packages do have build-time testing... then depending on the number of them may be do some analysis to see if I could state that build-time tested packages have less bug reports filed/opened (accounting at the same time against popularity). > Clearly, this idea is *insane*, but it's the sort of solution most > hardcore pythonistas I know would go for, which would make us > happy(ish), and them happy(ish). > btw -- let's not do this. it's insane. ;) > > I don't think you should worry too much about flames. My impression is that > > the packaging people are trying to scale back their ambitions and just get > > everyone to do the basic things like write decent metadata, mostly because > > I > > think the process of delivering a comprehensive solution is deadlocked once > > again, and I think that people do see the need to hear from distributions > > and > > to try and get as much input from them as possible. > I just don't want a good discussion to get deraled by a few people > saying globally installing modules results in a bad dependency hell, and > we're tainting their whatever. yeah -- I would try to avoid discussion by simply stating that it works in many cases and Debian is a clear example for that, so there is no point to disguss it any further. > > Paul > - Other Paul -- Yarik, just Yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120928135224.gj26...@onerussian.com