Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-23 Thread Francois Chenais
Le 23 mars 2013 à 08:40, Václav Šmilauer a écrit : >> I was pointed to an interesting resource: >> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ (The security issues with that >> arrangement are non-trivial, but the convenience factor is huge) > That webpage saved me a lot of headache with packa

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-23 Thread Václav Šmilauer
I was pointed to an interesting resource: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ (The security issues with that arrangement are non-trivial, but the convenience factor is huge) That webpage saved me a lot of headache with packages I was not able to build under Windows (with mingw64). I conta

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Holth
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 20 March 2013 18:29, Donald Stufft wrote: >> Why can't unofficial binaries just use a separate index? e.g. Christoph can >> just make an index with his binaries. >> >> This solution also works well if someone wants to maintain a curated PyP

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Moore
On 20 March 2013 18:29, Donald Stufft wrote: > Why can't unofficial binaries just use a separate index? e.g. Christoph can > just make an index with his binaries. > > This solution also works well if someone wants to maintain a curated PyPI. The only real issue I know of is hosting. I've thought

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/2013 06:13 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > Another nice tool would be some sort of Windows build farm, where > projects could submit a sdist and it would build wheels for a list of > supported Python versions and architectures. That wouldn't work f

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Steve Dower > wrote: >>> From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com] >>> [snip] >>> >>> I was pointed to an interesting resource: >>> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ >>> >>> (The security issue

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 20 March 2013 16:31, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Then the pip developers, for example, could say "we trust Christoph to >> make our Windows installers", and grant him repackager access so he >> could upload the binaries for secure redistribution f

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Moore
On 20 March 2013 16:31, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Then the pip developers, for example, could say "we trust Christoph to > make our Windows installers", and grant him repackager access so he > could upload the binaries for secure redistribution from PyPI rather > than needing to host them himself. An

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Adam GROSZER
On 03/20/2013 04:42 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Paul Moore wrote: On 19 March 2013 16:21, Steve Dower wrote: As I understand, the issue is the same as between different versions of Python and comes down to not being able to assume a compiler on Windows machines.

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Steve Dower wrote: >> From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com] >> [snip] >> >> I was pointed to an interesting resource: >> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ >> >> (The security issues with that arrangement are non-trivial, but the >> convenience fac

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Dower
> From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com] > [snip] > > I was pointed to an interesting resource: > http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ > > (The security issues with that arrangement are non-trivial, but the > convenience factor is huge) FWIW, one of the guys on our team has met with

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 19 March 2013 16:21, Steve Dower wrote: >> As I understand, the issue is the same as between different versions of >> Python and comes down to not being able to assume a compiler on Windows >> machines. It's easy to make a source file that

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Moore
On 19 March 2013 16:21, Steve Dower wrote: > As I understand, the issue is the same as between different versions of > Python and comes down to not being able to assume a compiler on Windows > machines. It's easy to make a source file that will compile for any ABI and > platform, but distributi

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-19 Thread Dennis Coldwell
Welcome Steve! I really enjoyed your lightning talk (and would like to apologize for my audible "WHAT!?!" reaction when I heard the title as "Debugging Python with Microsoft Visual Studio" :) Welcome to the community, I've also been lurking here from some time, hoping to see where I can lend a ha

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Steve Dower wrote: > Bitbucket is starting to get some love here, and we've been pushing to get > Mercurial on equal standing with Git internally. Right now, our small Python > team isn't influential enough to get a commitment to a testing service, but > there's

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-19 Thread Steve Dower
> From: Jim Fulton > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Steve Dower > wrote: > > I just joined up after the various discussions at PyCon and wanted to > > say hi. (If you were also there and want to put a face/voice to the > > name, I did the Visual Studio demo at one of the lightning talks.) > >

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-19 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 19, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Steve Dower > wrote: >> I just joined up after the various discussions at PyCon and wanted to say >> hi. (If you were also there and want to put a face/voice to the name, I did >> the Visual Studio demo at one

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-19 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Steve Dower wrote: > I just joined up after the various discussions at PyCon and wanted to say > hi. (If you were also there and want to put a face/voice to the name, I did > the Visual Studio demo at one of the lightning talks.) That was a very cool demo. > The

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Steve Dower wrote: > I expect I’ll mainly be lurking until I can be useful, which is why I wanted > to start with this post. I’m pretty good with Windows, and I have direct > access to all the experts and internal mailing lists. So just shout out when > something c

Re: [Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Clark
On 2013-03-18 16:34:25 +, Steve Dower said: Hi all   I just joined up after the various discussions at PyCon and wanted to say hi. (If you were also there and want to put a face/voice to the name, I did the Visual Studio demo at one of the lightning talks.)   The main reason I want to get

[Distutils] self.introduce(distutils-sig)

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Dower
Hi all I just joined up after the various discussions at PyCon and wanted to say hi. (If you were also there and want to put a face/voice to the name, I did the Visual Studio demo at one of the lightning talks.) The main reason I want to get involved is the openly acknowledged lack of Windows