Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

On 16 Aug 2016 05:09, "Donald Stufft" wrote: > > Hello! > > I'd like to restrict what folks can upload to PyPI in an effort to help narrow > the scope down and to enable more a more consistent experience for everyone. > > First off, we currently allow people to upload sdist,

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > >> On Aug 15, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> My main thought regarding this is that bdist_dmg != all dmg files (similarly >> for msi and wininst). These are specific files

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > My main thought regarding this is that bdist_dmg != all dmg files (similarly > for msi and wininst). These are specific files created by distutils without a > standard or without the needed work to make them truly what

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

On Aug 15, 2016, at 05:39 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >so narrowing it down to only .tar.gz and .tgz is pretty safe, but practically >nobody uses .tgz anyways so why bother? I agree with all of your reasoning. FWIW, I personally use .tgz all the time when making backups of things locally, but

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2016, at 03:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > >> Out of all of these, I think that we can easily remove bdist_dmg, bdist_rpm, >> and bdist_dumb. I also believe that there is a strong case for removing >> bdist_msi

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

On Aug 15, 2016, at 03:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >Out of all of these, I think that we can easily remove bdist_dmg, bdist_rpm, >and bdist_dumb. I also believe that there is a strong case for removing >bdist_msi and bdist_wininst. I also think we should consider removing >bdist_egg. +1 for all

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > Next we have bdist_dmg, bdist_msi, and bdist_winist. I'm lumping these > together > because they're all OS specific installers for OSs that don't already have > some > sort of repository. This lack of a repository

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016, at 08:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >> Finally, bdist_egg is quite possibly the trickiest one to justify. A fair >> number of people still upload eggs, even though we have the wheel format. >>

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Alex Grönholm wrote: > 15.08.2016, 22:28, Donald Stufft kirjoitti: >>> >>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Ian Cordasco >>> wrote: >>> >>> My only thought is how we convey this message to users. I wonder if it

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

15.08.2016, 22:28, Donald Stufft kirjoitti: On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote: My only thought is how we convey this message to users. I wonder if it would be beneficial to have Twine cut a release that warns users when they are uploading something

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote: > > My only thought is how we convey this message to users. I wonder if it > would be beneficial to have Twine cut a release that warns users when > they are uploading something that will be unsupported, then have >

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016, at 08:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > Finally, bdist_egg is quite possibly the trickiest one to justify. A fair > number of people still upload eggs, even though we have the wheel format. > However, I think that we should (and generally do) consider eggs to be > deprecated and

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > Hello! > > I'd like to restrict what folks can upload to PyPI in an effort to help narrow > the scope down and to enable more a more consistent experience for everyone. > > First off, we currently allow people to upload

Re: [Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

+1 for disallowing uploads of anything else than sdists and wheels. 15.08.2016, 22:09, Donald Stufft kirjoitti: Hello! I'd like to restrict what folks can upload to PyPI in an effort to help narrow the scope down and to enable more a more consistent experience for everyone. First off, we

[Distutils] Deprecating little used file types/extensions on PyPI?

Hello! I'd like to restrict what folks can upload to PyPI in an effort to help narrow the scope down and to enable more a more consistent experience for everyone. First off, we currently allow people to upload sdist, bdist_wheel, bdist_egg, bdist_dmg, bdist_dumb, bdist_msi, bdist_rpm, and

Re: [Distutils] Pip maintainers contact

There is no email contact per se. The project tacker is here - github.com/pypa/pip and there is a google group here - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pypa-dev On 13 August 2016 at 21:28, hyp3rlinx wrote: > Can somebody here please tell me the contact email for

[Distutils] Pip maintainers contact

Can somebody here please tell me the contact email for maintainers of pip. Thank you, John ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig