[Distutils] Wheel (pep 427) reference implementation

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel Holth
A friendly reminder that wheel is implemented, useful and working as long as you are using distribute 0.6.28 or better. Qwcode's pip fork supports it. When you install a wheel you get .dist-info and can easily have no .egg-info in your virtualenv. Would anyone care to lend a hand with the Sphinx A

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376, Uninstallation and interoperability

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel Holth
On Feb 18, 2013 3:32 AM, "Vinay Sajip" wrote: > > PJ Eby telecommunity.com> writes: > > > Yes - it's unnecessary for library directories (e.g. stuff under > > site-packages). You may safely remove any empty subdirectory of the > > directories containing the .dist-info, that is a parent of any of

Re: [Distutils] Trouble building visual python extension on MacOSX 10.8... with python3.2

2013-02-18 Thread Ned Deily
In article <80a14fcd-7722-437f-a030-d5a71e4f4...@spvi.com>, Steve Spicklemire wrote: > Aha! I think this turned out to be the trouble. > > THANK YOU! Glad it helped. > Anyway.. I appreciate your suggestion to use the oldest supported system, but > it's getting harder to keep such system arou

Re: [Distutils] Trouble building visual python extension on MacOSX 10.8... with python3.2

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Aha! I think this turned out to be the trouble. THANK YOU! Having said that, I didn't specify -framework Python explicitly, but distutils put that *and* the correct '-I' (but not '-L') line for the corresponding include directory within the correct version of the framework. I guess it was gett

Re: [Distutils] Confusion of a hobby programmer

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Moore
On 18 February 2013 19:56, Don Question wrote: > lately i was wondering (again) if i should put my small python projects on > pypi, and reevaluated (again) the required package-format. And quite frankly > im confused (again) as so many times before. I count at least 5 major and 3 You are right, t

Re: [Distutils] Trouble building visual python extension on MacOSX 10.8... with python3.2

2013-02-18 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Steve Spicklemire wrote: > I'm hoping someone on the distutils list may have some hints about > discovering the incantation necessary to produce a working boost-linked > python extension for ptyhon.org Python-3.2.3 on MacOS 10.8. Sorry, I don't have any experience with boost but I

Re: [Distutils] Confusion of a hobby programmer

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel Holth
I fell into this trap about a year ago, spending many hours reading documentation and blog posts, trying to use setuptools alternatives / get rid of setup.py. Turns out distribute + setup.py is still the most practical way to go. I approve of http://www.scotttorborg.com/python-packaging/ . It at l

Re: [Distutils] Confusion of a hobby programmer

2013-02-18 Thread Lennart Regebro
OK, let's clear out some confusion. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Don Question wrote: > * distutils Yes, this is the basic packaging system of Python, included in the standard library. > * setuptools Extends distutils with many useful functions. However it is not under much development. Use

[Distutils] Confusion of a hobby programmer

2013-02-18 Thread Don Question
Hi folks, lately i was wondering (again) if i should put my small python projects on pypi, and reevaluated (again) the required package-format. And quite frankly im confused (again) as so many times before. I count at least 5 major and 3 minor/alternative packaging-systems: * distutils * distuti

Re: [Distutils] Trouble building visual python extension on MacOSX 10.8… with python3.2

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Spicklemire
I should mention that at least one of the differences here: aluminum:visual_common steve$ grep Indirect ~/t6.txt Indirect symbols for (__TEXT,__symbol_stub1) 1442 entries Indirect symbols for (__DATA,__nl_symbol_ptr) 2168 entries Indirect symbols for (__DATA,__la_symbol_ptr) 1442 entries Indirect

[Distutils] Trouble building visual python extension on MacOSX 10.8… with python3.2

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Hi Distutils Folks, I'm hoping someone on the distutils list may have some hints about discovering the incantation necessary to produce a working boost-linked python extension for ptyhon.org Python-3.2.3 on MacOS 10.8. Here's my situation. I'm attempting to help out with a wxPython port of visu

Re: [Distutils] Bootstrapping Buildout 2.x without a network connection

2013-02-18 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote: > On 17-02-13 03:25, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: >> >> The new bootstrap script for buildout 2.0 always attempt to download >> distribute_setup.py instead if distribute is not available: >> >> See:https://github.com/buildout/buildout/blob/ee7

Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ > This is looking great! > >> License (optional) >> -- > [...] >> The full text of th

Re: [Distutils] Bootstrapping Buildout 2.x without a network connection

2013-02-18 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 17-02-13 03:25, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: The new bootstrap script for buildout 2.0 always attempt to download distribute_setup.py instead if distribute is not available: See:https://github.com/buildout/buildout/blob/ee709cfb00229fbd8fc8554db8df06a46808/bootstrap/bootstrap.py#L81 exec(url

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376, Uninstallation and interoperability

2013-02-18 Thread Vinay Sajip
PJ Eby telecommunity.com> writes: > Yes - it's unnecessary for library directories (e.g. stuff under > site-packages). You may safely remove any empty subdirectory of the > directories containing the .dist-info, that is a parent of any of the > files belonging to the distribution you are uninsta