On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > > e.g. Trac is downloaded from t.e.o > > , is it worth to check what's been done in that case ? > > > > The Trac packages get uploaded to the PyPI servers, I just did this when > releasing 0.12.6 and 1.0.2 last month. The files listed on the page live on > the PyPI servers: > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trac/1.0.2 > > Anyway, we may be getting sidetracked because I don't think anyone has > raised concerns about putting the package on PyPI, I think it was just > assumed that the downloads needed to be hosted elsewhere. > > > TBH , since long time ago I only install from the repository but I recall I saw things like this in a few logs once upon a time e.g. [1] [2] [3] > > Nevertheless my main concern is that easy-installation might not be a > > result of publishing it on PyPI . Bloodhound installation is not a > setup.py > > driven process . There are some scripts involved and I'm not sure PyPI > > provides support for such scenarios ... maybe it's worth investigating > the > > wheel format [1]_ looking for a few answers and also to decide whether to > > adopt it as an (alternative | official) packaging format . > > > > The risk associated with (lack of) easy-installability is that users end > up > > with an unstable system immediately after installation . > > > > .. [1] http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/ > > > > That is a good point. Gary did some work recently to "make the installer > installable". We'll need to do some testing to see if it's possible or > useful to easy_install. PyPI has a test server we can utilize, avoiding the > need to make the package public while we evaluate: > https://wiki.python.org/moin/TestPyPI > +1 .. [1] http://pastebin.com/KhBNJ9sQ .. [2] http://pastebin.com/bAxWUhd2 .. [3] http://pastebin.com/axguEWEE -- Regards, Olemis - @olemislc Apache(tm) Bloodhound contributor http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound http://blood-hound.net Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article:
