Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention

2017-01-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 13, 2017, at 10:08 AM, Lukasz Langa wrote: >PEP: 541 >Title: Package Index Name Retention Overall, +1 I agree with Steve that some short term name squatting may be appropriate. I'm not sure how you would word that in the PEP, but it will probably effectively work itself out anyway. When

Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention

2017-01-13 Thread Nick Timkovich
This is a great PEP, glad to see an official policy being worked on! The "reachability" criteria I think should define how promptly the responses are expected and to what email(s) they will be sent (if there are multiple maintainers, owners, authors, etc.). For example, "the first contact will be

Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention

2017-01-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 13.01.2017 19:08, Lukasz Langa wrote: > Invalid projects > > > A project published on the Package Index meeting ANY of the following > is considered invalid and will be removed from the Index: > > * project does not conform to Terms of Use; > * project is malware (designed to

Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Dower
On 13Jan2017 1050, Lukasz Langa wrote: Thanks for review, Steve! On Jan 13, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Steve Dower wrote: An *abandoned* project can be transferred to a new owner for purposes of reusing the name when ALL of the following are met: ... The list here is

Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention

2017-01-13 Thread Lukasz Langa
Thanks for review, Steve! > On Jan 13, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Steve Dower wrote: > > I don't see any reason to expect the index maintainers to trawl through a > project's documentation or home page to find contact details. There are more > than enough ways to provide it

[Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention

2017-01-13 Thread Lukasz Langa
Hello distutils-sig, I'd like to get some comments on this. I was asked by Donald to work on it. It removes ambiguity from some of the situations that crop up increasingly often with regards to package names on the PyPI. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say! - Ł PEP: 541 Title:

Re: [Distutils] How to specify dependencies in Python

2017-01-13 Thread Jim Fulton
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Thomas Güttler < guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > What is an application for you? Another way to think about this, FWIW, is to distinguish between the "whole system" (for which "Application" is often a useful shorthand), as opposed to components (aka

Re: [Distutils] How to specify dependencies in Python

2017-01-13 Thread Nathaniel Smith
It's probably a good idea here to explicitly distinguish between the kind of application that's a web app you deploy to sort of managed server environment, and the kind of application that's a command line or GUI tool that people download and run. The same word means radically different things to

Re: [Distutils] How to specify dependencies in Python

2017-01-13 Thread Paul Moore
On 13 January 2017 at 12:23, Thomas Güttler wrote: > Am 12.01.2017 um 13:43 schrieb Nick Coghlan: >> >> On 12 January 2017 at 22:04, Thomas Güttler >> wrote: >>> >>> I came across a python library which has docs, which start like this: