Re: [Distutils] new PyPI: a rant from a package maintainer

2017-08-05 Thread Alex Walters
> Also -- I know that the various tools involved are maintained by different > people, but it sure would be nice if, for instance, the latest versions of > setuptools and twine would not try to upload non longer supported file types! The tools should have better reporting on the errors pypi give

Re: [Distutils] new PyPI: a rant from a package maintainer

2017-08-05 Thread Chris Barker
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Lucas Boppre Niehues wrote: > > The long description was originally Markdown, and converted to RST by > pandoc. I would 100% understand if this conversion triggered some bug. > It's a good idea to run docutils on it yourself -- but in any case, broken RST has alwa

Re: [Distutils] new PyPI: a rant from a package maintainer

2017-08-05 Thread Chris Barker
one point: I probably should have named it something other than /legacy/, > yes, it should have -- names matter! and having a "legacy" in teh name when there is not "modern" or "current", or, indeed, anything else is very confusing. pypi.org, might as well get it all done at once. It might be

Re: [Distutils] status check on PEP 517

2017-08-05 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017, at 01:05 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I wouldn't say that, as the two most clearly side effect free ways of > putting the source directory on sys.path are: > > 1. make it the current working directory for a "python -m" or "python > -c" invocation, so that the current directory ge

Re: [Distutils] new PyPI: a rant from a package maintainer

2017-08-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 August 2017 at 03:12, Donald Stufft wrote: > I’ll see what I can do here. It might just make sense for these related set > of tools to just ditch the Github issue trackers and share an issue tracker > that can divide things up by project somehow, but where we can readily move > issues between