Re: [Distutils] Call for information - What assumptions can I make about Unix users' access to Windows?

2014-11-07 Thread Christian Heimes
On 07.11.2014 16:46, Paul Moore wrote: Any feedback would be extremely useful. I'm at a point where I can pretty easily set up any of these options, but if they don't turn out to actually be usable by the target audience, it's a bit of a waste of time! :-) I'm hosting two Windows 7 Ultimate

Re: [Distutils] PEX at Twitter (re: PEX - Twitter's multi-platform executable archive format for Python)

2014-02-01 Thread Christian Heimes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01.02.2014 19:06, Brett Cannon wrote: Yes, that is definitely a design flaw in the ssl module that should get remedied. Did you file a bug to add a new API (whether new function or new parameters) to accept a file-like object or string

Re: [Distutils] Migrating Hashes from MD5 to SHA256

2013-07-26 Thread Christian Heimes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 26.07.2013 18:25, schrieb Donald Stufft: PyPI has historically used MD5 in order to verify the downloads. However MD5 is severely broken and is generally regarded as something that should be migrated away from ASAP. From speaking with a

Re: [Distutils] vetting, signing, verification of release files

2013-07-16 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 16.07.2013 12:21, schrieb Jannis Leidel: On 16.07.2013, at 11:19, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: Any thoughts or pointers to existing efforts within the (Python) packaging ecologies? Erik Rose just released peep the other day [1], which admittedly doesn't use gpg but at

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.7 final available for download

2013-06-03 Thread Christian Heimes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 03.06.2013 14:44, schrieb Tres Seaver: Maybe I'm missing something, but where is the 'ez_zetup.py' script hosted? It isn't present in the bitbucket downloads directlry. https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads/ Maybe linking to

Re: [Distutils] Remove current Windows executables from Lib/distutils/command in svn?

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: b) IIRC, upx was used to compress these executables. I don't think the the current build process covers this, yet (but then, the current binaries might not be compressed with upx anymore, either - not sure whether that would be a bug). Of course, upx would

Re: [Distutils] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Phillip J. Eby schrieb: Questions, comments... volunteers? :) I've yet to read the monster package utils thread so I can't comment on it. However I like to draw some attention to my PEP 370 http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/. It's about a site packages directory in the users home directory.

Re: [Distutils] Consistent platform name for 64bit windows (was: distutils.util.get_platform() for Windows)

2008-03-18 Thread Christian Heimes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: So, at the risk of painting a bike-shed, I'd like to propose that we adopt 'AMD64' in distutils (needs a change), platform.py (needs a change to use sys.getwindowsversion() in preference to pywin32, if possible, anyway), and the Python banner (which already uses