Re: [Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

2009-07-24 Thread Brian Sutherland
Hi Zooko, I just implemented what I was talking about below on the van.pydeb trunk. Running the script against unstable I get a list of 565 packages that don't match the default mapping, I've added them to van.pydeb's database. The checkin is here:

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

2009-07-24 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Lennart Regebrorege...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/23 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: So how this will look at the end ? a conversion function that can be called when releasing for instance ? Something like that. There is a port.sh script that will make a

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

2009-07-24 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is ready, so we can have 0.6 for Python 3. I think we should make a 2.x only release first. The changes to support Python 3 are small but numerous and since the test-coverage isn't that

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

2009-07-24 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Lennart Regebrorege...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is ready, so we can have 0.6 for Python 3. I think we should make a 2.x only release first. The changes to

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

2009-07-24 Thread Leonardo Santagada
On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is ready, so we can have 0.6 for Python 3. I think we should make a 2.x only release first. The changes to support Python 3 are

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

2009-07-24 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Friday, 24 July, 2009, at 03:59PM, Leonardo Santagada santag...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is ready, so we can have 0.6 for Python 3.

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

2009-07-24 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ronald Oussorenronaldousso...@mac.com wrote: I agree with Lennart that a 2.x only release would be better, especially because it would be possible to do a 0.7 alpha/beta release short after the stable 0.6 release. Notice that 0.7 will rename the setuptools

Re: [Distutils] Setup.py as a Class, not a Procedure

2009-07-24 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:42:29 -0400, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote: Tarek, Recently I suggested having setup.py implemented as a class and not a procedure. I posted some notes on http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Proposals Do you have any comment? David, I think you

Re: [Distutils] Setup.py as a Class, not a Procedure

2009-07-24 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:55:11 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com I think you should flesh out your proposal a bit more: Thanks Jean-Paul, I can do that. 3) Lose the stuff about setup.cfg - where configuration data goes can be the same regardless of what the Python API looks