2009/8/12 Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>: > I am glad that you have started thinking about the module split. > > 1) Why are the distributions named in CamelCase? Why not > 'distribute.resources' instead of 'DistributeResources' (like, for instance, > zope.interface instead of ZopeInterface).
Because the distribution name is not the packages names. See for instance the Paste project : PasteScript, Paste, PasteDeploy. > > 2) In your proposal below, version comparison is part of > distribute.installer; this means distribute.resources (and other modules > needing version comparison) will be depending on distribute.installer, > correct? Is this intended, or should version comparison go to something like > distribute.core? When would distribute.resources need version comparisons if its sole role is to provide query APIs for installed packages ? (pre-PEP 376, then PEP 376-compliant) > > 3) PyPM's backend uses a) pkg_resources' version comparison, b) > package_index's download logic (not API-friendly). I'd be interested to see > distribute.installer provide this download logic (finding URLs, tarballs and > fetching them) as an API. I believe pip and zc.buildout too relies on this > download logic. pakage_index would be included in distribute.installer, and we could probably add simpler APIs to use it to drive a download > > 4) How about distribute.pypi that interfaces with pypi? > So, like a subpart of package_index ? this is a nice idea, so tools like yolk or z3c.pypimirror could browse pypi index with it, It could also have a full xmlrpc client implementation for PyPI xml-rpc APIs, > -srid > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:30:47 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I've started to work on splitting Distribute into several distributions >> for 0.7 >> >> Here's the organization I was thinking about: >> >> - Distribution Name = "Distribute" >> - Content: setuptools package renamed to distribute (minus some >> elements). root modules in setuptools will be moved to the >> distribute.core package so the >> root namespace stays empty. >> >> - Distribution Name = "DistributeResources" >> - Content: the part of pkg_resources.py that handles installed >> distribution querying + renamed to "distribute.resources" >> >> - Distribution Name = "DistributeEntryPoints" >> - Content: the part of pkg_resources.py that handles entry points + >> renamed to "distribute.entry_points" >> >> - Distribution Name = "DistributeInstaller" >> - Content: the part of pkg_resources.py that handles version >> comparison + package_index, that gets files at pypi + easy_install.py >> + easy_install command extracted from setuptools package + renamed >> into a "distribute.installer" package >> >> I am not sure yet how the distribute namespace will be handled, >> because (maybe ala PEP 382) >> >> I am not sure either if "setuptools.sandbox" should get its own >> distribution. I'd keep it in Distribute >> >> Any thoughts ? >> >> Cheers >> Tarek >> > > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
