Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 October 2017 at 23:53, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 31 October 2017 at 22:49, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > >> On 2017-10-31 16:25:08 +1000 (+1000), Nick Coghlan wrote: >> > Ideally we'd be recommending >> >

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 October 2017 at 22:49, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2017-10-31 16:25:08 +1000 (+1000), Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Ideally we'd be recommending > > https://devpi.net/docs/devpi/devpi/stable/%2Bd/index.html to folks > looking > > to develop a robust pre-release artifact testing

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-31 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2017-10-31 13:09:34 + (+), Thomas Kluyver wrote: [...] > If anyone wants to adapt the code to use in other tools, it's > here: > > https://github.com/takluyver/flit/blob/ca08119/flit/inifile.py#L63-L108 [...] Thanks for the pointer! That would make for a really great stand-alone

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-31 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > Do the two share enough common code for successful uploading to a > devpi instance to be indicative of whether PyPI will accept or > reject on the grounds of, e.g., invalid trove classifiers (this one > in particular has been the most

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-31 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2017-10-31 16:25:08 +1000 (+1000), Nick Coghlan wrote: > Ideally we'd be recommending > https://devpi.net/docs/devpi/devpi/stable/%2Bd/index.html to folks looking > to develop a robust pre-release artifact testing workflow. > > While we mention it a couple of times on packaging.python.org

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 October 2017 at 03:41, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > When we locked down pypi to prevent uploading an sdist to overwrite a > previous I remember that some people wanted a brief window to check > for brown paper bag issues and be able to upload a new tarball in that > window

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-30 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Oct 30, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > I figured that unless I > asked, I would never know the answer :-) > TestPyPI has a couple of use cases, and it’s not very good at any of them. One use case is to serve as a staging site for production PyPI to

Re: [Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-30 Thread Mariatta Wijaya
TestPyPI can be useful for those who are not package maintainers, but want to learn about Python Packaging and need a 'playground' to experiment with it. Mariatta Wijaya On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > When we locked down pypi to prevent

[Distutils] What's the use case of testpypi?

2017-10-30 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
When we locked down pypi to prevent uploading an sdist to overwrite a previous I remember that some people wanted a brief window to check for brown paper bag issues and be able to upload a new tarball in that window if needed. IIRC, those people were told to use testpypi for that sort of thing.