Re: [Distutils] Immutable Files on PyPI

2014-09-28 Thread Joe Smith
Thanks for the well-reasoned response Nick. Donald: +1 to your proposal. This will increase stability for the main package repository, which is a good direction to move toward. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 Sep 2014 07:37, M.-A. Lemburg

Re: [Distutils] wheels or system packages for pip on ubuntu

2014-09-03 Thread Joe Smith
Another option (along the lines of conda) is pex, which zips up you code + dependencies into a single, zipped executable. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex Pex has been relatively nice for us, as we can bundle our applications into (mainly) hermetically-sealed binaries, which works well on

Re: [Distutils] Handling Case/Normalization Differences

2014-08-29 Thread Joe Smith
require any sort of runtime logic. On Aug 28, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Joe Smith yasumo...@gmail.com wrote: Naive question- does pip send over a UserAgent (or something) that contains a version number the server can use to determine which behavior to default to? That would allow a deprecation cycle

Re: [Distutils] Handling Case/Normalization Differences

2014-08-28 Thread Joe Smith
Naive question- does pip send over a UserAgent (or something) that contains a version number the server can use to determine which behavior to default to? That would allow a deprecation cycle of N months or so that will let people upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6. We could then watch usage of 1.5 decrease