Re: [Distutils] Library instability on PyPI and impact on OpenStack

2013-03-01 Thread Glyph
On Feb 28, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Mark McLoughlin mar...@redhat.com wrote: I always felt that the Python community tended more towards the former approach, but there always exceptions to the rule - to unfairly pick one one project, sqlalchemy seems to have an API that often changes incompatibly.

[Distutils] buildout and build-time dependencies

2013-03-01 Thread Ben Acland
Hey folks, butt_covering I've googled around, hit IRC, and tried a bunch of stuff to fix this. Even so, maybe I missed something obvious. Sorry if this question is redundant. /butt_covering I'm using buildout to install a series of python modules, each of which is dependent on the others *at

Re: [Distutils] buildout and build-time dependencies

2013-03-01 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 28-02-13 20:31, Ben Acland wrote: tl;dr: how to handle build time dependencies between python modules using buildout, without looking stupid or including .tar.gz files in my repo. numpy and scipy are a hell to install. I basically install them in the OS and use the syseggrecipe to get the

Re: [Distutils] buildout and build-time dependencies

2013-03-01 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Mar 1, 2013 5:54 AM, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: On 28-02-13 20:31, Ben Acland wrote: tl;dr: how to handle build time dependencies between python modules using buildout, without looking stupid or including .tar.gz files in my repo. numpy and scipy are a hell to install.

[Distutils] wheel setup.cfg extensions

2013-03-01 Thread Daniel Holth
Where should these go / be defined? The wheel project understands some setup.cfg extensions that are important for Metadata 2.0 and wheel. The [metadata] section allows you to override the setup(install_requires=[...]) with values containing environment markers. [metadata] also lets you specify