Re: [Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Fulton
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:40:36AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >> > On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >>> Please can we have a new format that only has a Python version in th

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging

2012-03-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:40:36AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > >>> Please can we have a new format that only has a Python version in the > >>> filename if it matters? > >> > >> isn't that supposed t

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging

2012-03-15 Thread Chris Barker
> On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> Why would someone create a binary release when >> it's pure Python ? There are a lot of users (Windows and Mac anyway) that like a nice point+click installer, and don't know (and shouldn't have to) whether there is any compiled code in there. It's

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Fulton
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> Please can we have a new format that only has a Python version in the >>> filename if it matters? >> >> isn't that supposed to be the source release ? > > Yes, basically - at least as far as I unde

Re: [Distutils] easy_install problem

2012-03-15 Thread Nitin Dhiman
I tried and following is the output. nitin@nitin-desktop:/opt/ros/diamondback/ros$ sudo easy_install -vv -U rosinstall vcstools Searching for rosinstall Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/rosinstall/ Download error: [Errno -2] Name or service not known -- Some packages may not be found! Reading

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging

2012-03-15 Thread Paul Moore
2012/3/15 PJ Eby : > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore wrote: >> >> If there's a binary egg available, how do I know whether it's needed >> without trying a source install and seeing if it works? > > > The egg will have a platform string in its name in that case.  Otherwise, > it'll be j