Re: [Distutils] stdeb-0.3 error

2009-09-21 Thread Gerry Reno
Andrew Straw wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Ok, here is the simplest way that I got stdeb working on Hardy: $ easy_install stdeb # installs 0.3 copied stdeb egg to workarea and edited util.py and removed all --single-version-externally-managed options repackaged egg copied egg back to

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Finney
David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net writes: I don't know if you have checked lately but not many windows users these days even know what a command line even is. It's just plain unreasonable to expect windows users to resort to a command line in this day and age. No, I think the attitude of

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

2009-09-21 Thread David Lyon
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: It's just plain unreasonable to expect windows users to resort to a command line in this day and age. No, I think the attitude of these statements is unreasonable. I also find it staggeringly condescending.

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Finney
David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net writes: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: It's just plain unreasonable to expect windows users to resort to a command line in this day and age. No, I think the attitude of these statements is

Re: [Distutils] Distribute 0.6.2 - testing the release - help needed!

2009-09-21 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Attila Oláh attilao...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tarek, When do you plan to make a 'final' release of this version (0.6.2)? Attila Hi Attila, I am waiting for some feedback on the bootstrap process from various people that should be done this week, so the target

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/9/21 Wolfgang Schnerring w...@gocept.com: Very much agreed, let's use setup() arguments. Great. I've checked in some docs too, I expanded the section on Python 3 support and ended up creating a new document, python3.txt. Feedback on that is appreciated. Also, feedback on the naming of the

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Withers
David Lyon wrote: Don't worry Chris, if your idea is good enough, it is going to get forked... Sorry, I misheard that last word, in which case I agree ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

Re: [Distutils] distutils bdist_rpm and %postun section of spec file

2009-09-21 Thread Michał Klich
Dnia czwartek 17 września 2009 o 23:07:17 A. Cavallo napisał(a): Hi, as rule of thumb (followed now by all major distros) you should not put any script in %postun, %postinst etc sections. Regards, Antonio Hello, I am looking for some advise in creating rpm package using bdist_rpm. I

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Schnerring
* Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com [2009-09-19 08:16]: 2009/9/19 Wolfgang Schnerring w...@wosc.de: The idea of this *not* being a setup() argument was to keep compatibility with setuptools (since it will complain about arguments it doesn't understand). This would enable a package to use

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Schnerring
* Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com [2009-09-21 12:04]: Great. I've checked in some docs too, I expanded the section on Python 3 support and ended up creating a new document, python3.txt. Feedback on that is appreciated. Excellent! I think that covers it pretty well. Also, feedback on the

Re: [Distutils] Buildout + namespace packages + Django management commands?

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Kyle MacFarlane kylemacfarl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/20 Kyle MacFarlane kylemacfarl...@gmail.com ... But I have one (I hope) remaining problem. When buildout is run I assume you mean when bootstrapping. the first thing it does is install zc.buildout and

Re: [Distutils] stdeb-0.3 error

2009-09-21 Thread Gerry Reno
Andrew, Ok, .deb is building fine using modified stdeb 0.3 on hardy. I've installed the .deb and it works. I can see that stdeb is using debhelper which I really don't know much about. So it looks like debhelper or dh_make is generating the control files. What I need is someway that in

Re: [Distutils] stdeb-0.3 error

2009-09-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Gerry Reno wrote: Andrew, Ok, .deb is building fine using modified stdeb 0.3 on hardy. I've installed the .deb and it works. I can see that stdeb is using debhelper which I really don't know much about. So it looks like debhelper or dh_make is generating the control files. What I need is

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/9/21 Wolfgang Schnerring w...@gocept.com: My favourite colour: use 2to3 as the prefix (consistency helps, I think), like so:  2to3_enabled, 2to3_convert_doctests, 2to3_fixers, ... That works. Maybe just 2to3_doctests? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok

Re: [Distutils] stdeb-0.3 error

2009-09-21 Thread Gerry Reno
Andrew Straw wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Andrew, Ok, .deb is building fine using modified stdeb 0.3 on hardy. I've installed the .deb and it works. I can see that stdeb is using debhelper which I really don't know much about. So it looks like debhelper or dh_make is generating the control

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread P.J. Eby
At 10:15 PM 9/21/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/9/21 Wolfgang Schnerring w...@gocept.com: My favourite colour: use 2to3 as the prefix (consistency helps, I think), like so: 2to3_enabled, 2to3_convert_doctests, 2to3_fixers, ... That works. Maybe just 2to3_doctests? Really? I

Re: [Distutils] stdeb-0.3 error

2009-09-21 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: I really didn't have to use any stdeb config args or anything. I just created a dir myapp/debian and put a python-myapp.postinst script file in there, ran my bdist_deb command and then installed the .deb and the python-myapp.postinst script ran perfectly. So do I need to be

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

2009-09-21 Thread David Lyon
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:14:23 +1000, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: What? to say windows users don't like command lines... It's perfectly true. Not condescending. I know many users of systems who “don't like” command lines. You're going beyond that, though, and saying that it's

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/9/21 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com: At 10:15 PM 9/21/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/9/21 Wolfgang Schnerring w...@gocept.com: My favourite colour: use 2to3 as the prefix (consistency helps, I think), like so:  2to3_enabled, 2to3_convert_doctests, 2to3_fixers, ... That

Re: [Distutils] Comments on Python 3 support for Distribute.

2009-09-21 Thread Thomas Lotze
Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/9/21 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com: Really?  I would think 2to3_anything is not a valid keyword argument name. D'oh! You are right. OK, other ideas? The trivial one would be to use 2to3 as a postfix rather than as a prefix. -- Thomas