P.J. Eby wrote: > At 03:18 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Note how the package name is mangled... easy_install requires this. >> The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for >> a UCS2 Python build. Again, easy_install fails with that information >> added to the "py2.6" version marker. > > Btw, every couple years or so I've sent out a call on the distutils-SIG > to try to get consensus on a format for the platform tag information > used by setuptools. (The first time was before easy_install even > existed.) Unfortunately, it's rare that anybody contributes more than > criticism of the existing scheme. The last updates to the scheme were > by Mac folks, who at least had a clear vision of what was needed. > There's been some win32/win64 discussion in the past, but no proposals > or patches of comparable specificity. Linux and other unices haven't > had any concrete suggestions at all, AFAICR. > > Anyway... just saying that if you *have* a concretely implementable > proposal about what to do with platform tags, please do share on the > distutils-sig. Platform tags are one area that's reasonably easy to > upgrade in a backward-compatible-ish way; newer versions of easy_install > can still recognize older tags, although new eggs won't be recognized by > older installers (forcing people to upgrade setuptools in that case).
Here's a very simple Python version scheme we've been using for years: pyX.X_ucsY with X.X being the major.minor Python version and Y being either 2 or 4 depending on the UCS-build that was used to build the egg. The "_ucsY" part is not needed for pure-Python archives (but it doesn't hurt using it there as well) and also not needed on Windows, since Python is always UCS2 on Windows. easy_install should first look for the full version string and then fall back to the non-UCS one. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 05 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
