Has there been any progress on some of the package management tools people were talking about? I.e., list and delete packages? (At the moment no other features come to mind, but I'm definitely seeing a purpose for these functions) Someone said they were going to give it a go, but I can't remember who.
Another option that I think would be useful is to modify requirements in a package to make version numbers explicit. So I might have something in development and it requires a bunch of packages. It just requires the Most Recent version of those packages; I haven't tested anything but that, so I don't know if older versions would work, and I can't know if newer versions will work. When I get ready to release, I want to be conservative. Which means that I know that the exact versions I am using work well, but nothing else; I don't know that past or future versions of the packages I depend on will work. So I'd like to change my requirements so that they specify the exact versions I'm using at the time of release. As I think about it, it sounds pretty easy really. I just find all the requirements, see what version is installed, and rewrite requires.txt with those versions. At first I thought it should be a package management function, but should this be part of setuptools? A new command, or maybe an option to egg_info? It seems like it fits into egg_info well. This means requirements should be specified only in requires.txt, not in setup(). There's some other features I can think of specifically using subversion together with setuptools, but maybe I'll mull on those a bit longer. Nothing fancy, but codifying a specific pattern, something like: easy_install.py -e -b dev package_name cd dev/package_name # I would like "in-development" packages to have some specific version # but I don't know what that version should be...? sudo python setup.py develop -m # time passes, development is done, release is ready... python setup.py svntag 0.5 # changes PKG-INFO with new version, copies trunk to tags/0.5, does an # svn switch huh... maybe I can add such a command with an entry point? -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
