holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> writes: > Hi Ralf, > >> > >> > Sounds fine? >> >> no. these things should really be handled by distribute (or >> setuptools/distutils). there is nothing special about the py.test >> script. just imagine a world where every python package X came with a >> custom X_INHIBIT_VERSIONINSTALL environment variable. > > which part do you disagree on? Everything? > > If so, I don't get it - does setuptools currently (pje and distribute > variant) > care for installing binaries with version-suffixes? >
afaik no > Would it even generally make sense? Most scripts (see the the py.* helpers) > probably don't need version suffixes. With py.test it's special because a > user > program runs in its very interpreter context (unless distributed testing is > used) and testing against different interpreters is a common need. I disagree with this point. And even if I would agree, I still think that using the major and minor number as a suffix is insufficient for some people (think about the same interpreter version compiled for 32 or 64 bit architecture, or wide vs narrow unicode builds, or different compilers). > >> If you really like it that way, try to persuade the distribute guys to >> implement that feature (probably with a switch in ~/.pydistutils.cfg) > > Will see to talk to Tarek Ziade or other distutils people about this. makes sense. they are very responsive. I can see how this feature is useful to some people. > Not sure i'd like to wait until that becomes mainstream and certainly > don't want to try to convince PJE whose setuptools package is still > in wide use. that would probably take a long time... :) regards, - ralf _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
