[Distutils] Buildout configurations in a subdirectory stopped working.

2007-03-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
(config_file) This must be a recent change ( 2 weeks) because this makes buildout fail if you have the cfg files anywhere else than root. I'd like to know the rationale for this change, as I'd like to be able to have the profiles in a subdirectory. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http

Re: [Distutils] Buildout configurations in a subdirectory stopped working.

2007-03-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
that illustrates this? OK, I'll try. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

[Distutils] Setuptools + buildout for Zope 3?

2008-12-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
of what I'm up against. ;-) -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools + buildout for Zope 3?

2008-12-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 18:48, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: Hiya! What are the plans for Python 3 support for setuptools and zc.buildout? I looked through the archives quickly and couldn't see anything. If none, does anybody mind

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools + buildout for Zope 3?

2008-12-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 13:08, Tarek Ziadé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can post a patch here: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/ OK; so I'll do that. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools + buildout for Zope 3?

2008-12-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
supporting Python 3 we need to get those bugs fixed anyway. So that's the next part of this project. I have however created a diff file with changes for distutils to stop 2.6 complaining when you run python2.6 -3 setup.py test. I'll create a bugreport with that diff soon. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope

[Distutils] Some suggested patches

2009-01-03 Thread Lennart Regebro
to be handled. Am I correct that these are bugs, or should something else be done? A suggested patch is included, although I haven't made any tests for it, I wanted to check here first. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 Index: fixes

Re: [Distutils] Some suggested patches

2009-01-04 Thread Lennart Regebro
I'm sorry, that was the wong list. Ignore. On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 20:32, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: When trying to port setuptools, I found some things I think are bugs, missing library reorganisation fixes more specifically. Firstly, there are a lot of things missing from

[Distutils] Setuptools for Python 3 patch.

2009-01-04 Thread Lennart Regebro
. I'm going to make a blogpost about the porting experience. I'd also like to provide a source dist tgz for testing by others in that blog post, of that's OK. If it's not OK, then tell me. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

2009-01-28 Thread Lennart Regebro
Python, etc. That sounds very reasonable. That way if you install the foo python library, and it requires libfoo to be installed, it could get the foo.deb, which then would require and install the libfood.deb automatically. That would be very nice. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting

Re: [Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

2009-01-28 Thread Lennart Regebro
that make the Linux people very unhappy? -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

2009-01-29 Thread Lennart Regebro
. Well, you are gonna have to, because you also need to test that they work anyway. We can't distribute autogenerated distribution packages that nobody ever tested that they actually work. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

2009-01-29 Thread Lennart Regebro
and upload any distribution format except source code. Others can do that for you. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

2009-01-29 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 16:49, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: That's what users, continuous integration, and and bug reports are for! Yes, and if you have that, then you also have automatically generated packages, which you can upload to pypi. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone

Re: [Distutils] Uninstall command, the return

2009-01-31 Thread Lennart Regebro
, but if not it should already be compatible... -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

[Distutils] Setuptools for Python 3 port ready for testing.

2009-02-01 Thread Lennart Regebro
I've uploaded an sdist of setuptools ported to Python 3 to here: http://code.google.com/p/python-incompatibility/downloads/list A little more info on my blog: http://regebro.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/setuptools-and-easy_install-for-python-3/ -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http

Re: [Distutils] Maintainer and Maintainer email metadata

2009-02-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
field in PKG-INFO, I am all for 1/, but I am not sure for 2/. I never use the Maintainer field my self. Any opinions ? Who is the maintainer is more important than who is the author. +1 on adding a Maintainer field in PKG_INFO. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http

[Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-11 Thread Lennart Regebro
, should require disutils only. I'm not going to work on this, at least not until after the summit. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-11 Thread Lennart Regebro
directory, and a test variant that runs against the build tree instead of the source tree...  and runs under Python 3 instead of 2. Yes, that's the idea, but I can't do that as long as the test option depends on setuptools, as it will fail to import, since it's 2.x code. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-11 Thread Lennart Regebro
, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 without using 2to3. :-D Or of course, continue having a separate source distribution for Python 3 and a bit complicated development process, which is survivable, but I don't think it's a good long term strategy. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-11 Thread Lennart Regebro
it, and therefore you can't run the installer to convert to Python 3. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
you would use? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:35, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:38, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: That's not a catch 22.  You simply run a 2.x setup.py with options that cause the conversion to take place before running 3.x over the converted result

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
of mine. I don't have many assumptions. I just want the setuptools install and tests to work as expected under both python2 and python3. And that means that python3.0 setup.py install should work. And python3.0 setup.py test would be nice too, although it's less important. -- Lennart Regebro

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

2009-03-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
packages besides setuptools Well, that's what I'm trying to do. ;) -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Distutils] zc.buildout development catch 22

2009-03-15 Thread Lennart Regebro
.* or zc.buildout without using the zope testrunner et al? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils

Re: [Distutils] zc.buildout development catch 22

2009-03-15 Thread Lennart Regebro
. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] PyPI mirroring and Changing the .egg-info PEPs

2009-03-22 Thread Lennart Regebro
for mirrors.pypi.python.org pointing to a site that provides just one mirror: your own local cache. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
found confusing, and hence never have used. I have also never understood why distutils is so picky on what it includes. Just my 2 cents. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:40, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 08:02, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: I'm not advocating using the VCS to *generate the tarball*. I'm talking about using the VCS

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
of the VCS. What if you don't want to include some files that are present in the VCS ? Well, then you need to specify stuff in setup.py. This is an implicit behavior. It's a practical default. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
the reasonable assumption that all versioned files should be included. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
fuzzy general statements explain exactly what the problems are? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:10, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:14, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: Ok so, in version 1.2 of your package, you use the implicit way (VCS based

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/4/6 David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp: Lennart Regebro wrote: Sure, if the plugin can't use a stable API then it should not be included in the stdlib. I was not talking about the plugin stability, but about the situation where the VCS detection is broken. As it has

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/4/6 David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp: python setup.py sdist # put everything under svn into the tarball cd dist uncompress tarball python setup.py sdist # the tarball is not the same Why not? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
are, instead of vague hand waving and talk about magic. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 16:04, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: I don't understand why you're so anxious to deprecate something without first understanding what it's for. If nobody understands it, that is in itself reason to replace it with something people understand. -- Lennart Regebro

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
start as a copy/fork of distutils. In fact, it probably should, so that nobody needs to start from scratch. But calling it something else means distribution of it gets easy, and we don't have to worry about backwards compatibility. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
. And replaced. :) -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
asking the VCS for a list of files. It's just an argument against doing it by parsing subversions internal files. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
have a non-VCS directory of a mdule with a project file in it, that I distribute? If I modify a project, it should be checked in. Asking the VCS for which files are checked in i sthe most reliable way of figuring out which files are actually source files I can think of. -- Lennart Regebro

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
, and the question is if you want to include the source files used for this external build tool at all. So would automatic globbing be better? Wouldn't you need to specify which files that should be included here? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
never claimed it works for you. You are saying that this method should *not* be supported. Hence you are saying that it somehow does not work for people in general, which it clearly does, or that it is useless, which I don't think it is. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
than that. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 09:40, David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote: Lennart Regebro wrote: Lower system? What would that be? This is about if we should support getting a file list from the VCS or not to determine what files should go in a sdist. We can argue all day long

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
of files. It's a question of how that list is generated. Manually is not lower level, it's just impractical. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
you might get intermediary build files included as well, in worst case. Or Alice's project file, or similar. But the distribution would not be exactly the same, this is true. Is that a problem? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
to launch the sdist command because he will probably get a incomplete list of files. Not if the default is all files except well known temporary files. He might get more files than desired, though. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
. Well, fine. So specify what files you want included then. Problem solved. You still aren't listening, and as a result, you are wasting peoples time by arguing against straw men. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
windmills. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
it. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
plugin, and not in stdlib? Again, this is of course only possible if the new distutils is called something else, as we need backwards compatibility for a Very Long Time if it continues to be called distutils. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
will be available, how will this work? If I use a new version of distutils, and somebody uses 2.5 to install my package, how will he know how to fix the errors that appear? And how will my 2.6 package work under 2.7 if you remove backwards compatibility? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
can't. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
... Tarek has collected requirements and are still doing so, and everybody is completely open for new requirements, or explanations of why proposed solutions doesn't work. Regards -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
to dynamically change the data depending on things like module availability and python version, etc. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] setuptools 0.7a for Python 3 fails to build on Windows

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
back if I encounter any further problems.        Now I can get started porting my namespace packages to Python 3. OK, Cool. I'll try to put in the 2to3 support that I have made for zope.interfaces soon. That should easy porting as well. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http

Re: [Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
Well... they don't, do they? Except that they can be easy_installed, right? -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http

[Distutils] setuptools still supported on Python 2.3?

2009-04-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
of setuptools seems to work on Python 2.3 still, although I haven't tried it in practice. But the tests run. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http

Re: [Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

2009-04-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
and add and remove parts. As with WinG or MS Office or whatever. That would also remove the need for a separate installer exe for each file. This is then basically the same requirements as the uninstall requirements from Linux people, except that you would have a GUI. -- Lennart Regebro: Python

Re: [Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

2009-04-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
installations into Python, etc.? I just don't see the benefit. While having a Python package manager, I *can* see the benefit. But as always, I don't use Windows much nowadays, so I don't really care. I just want understand the thinking. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http

Re: [Distutils] setuptools still supported on Python 2.3?

2009-04-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 17:15, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: There is no code in setuptools itself that uses subprocess.  Are you sure it's not a plugin, or the package you're installing? Yes, you are right, I got confused by the error message. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone

Re: [Distutils] Buildout recipe for managing .deb packages?

2009-04-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
the point of a buildout... -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

2009-04-18 Thread Lennart Regebro
to actually *understand* the code. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

2009-04-18 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:41, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:23, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: It's on its way http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/pep-0382.txt Ah, OK, very good. I missed that one. But it aims for Python 3.x

Re: [Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
that replacing it with something else that actually is easily portable to Python 3 isn't feasible. To get more modules running under Python 3 we really have to make setuptools run and install smoothly under Python 3 too. I'll make a post on this. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http

[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
, and just use plain distutils for installing and testing setuptools. This will mean no more setuptools source eggs, but then I don't see the purpose of those, really. Arguments for not doing this and alternative solutions are highly welcome. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
the real problems are, and these problems are not documented. I guess we need Phillip's input on that. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
. So in fact, what you are suggesting here is almost exactly what I'm suggesting, except that I don't see the point in confusing and complicating things by keeping the old setup.py. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
, anyway. I don't understand a word in your answer, it makes no sense to me whatsoever, Try answering like I'm a moron, because I probably am. Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc. No, setup3.py does that. Why do I need setup.py? -- Lennart

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
Let me reformulate that: Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc. Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
an exception? or SVN-based manifest building (for making sdists). Well, we can survive without that, as far as I can see. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
feasible. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
tools that depend on setuptools and want to have an automated overall install process.) OK, I wonder if there is a way around that. If not, then as far as I can see, there is no way to install or develop with setuptools smoothly in Python 3. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
of the build, and also includes the right files if it succeeds, but doesn't fail when these files can't be built. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
Maybe we should stop talking about how to improve distutils under the topic of what the problem is with setuptools under Python 3? It's pretty unrelated. ;-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
use to make money. I'm getting too old for this. Somebody else can do it. Over and out. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http

Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

2009-04-22 Thread Lennart Regebro
of distributing modules. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

2009-07-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
Tarek Ziadé: We have started a new project called 'Distribute'. OK, I will retire my Python 3 branch, and make a branch here instead, within a week. Maybe during the weekend, although I'm fairly busy at the moment. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33

[Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

2009-07-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
More specifically, Python 2.3 and/or 2.4? The current trunk (or whatever mercurial calls it) doesn't work with 2.4, because of a try/except/finally clause. That's fixable, but I ain't gonna fix it if we don't want to support 2.4 any more. I would claim that we should support 2.4. -- Lennart

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

2009-07-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/7/16 Encolpe Degoute encolpe.dego...@free.fr: Lennart Regebro a écrit : More specifically, Python 2.3 and/or 2.4? The current trunk (or whatever mercurial calls it) doesn't work with 2.4, because of a try/except/finally clause. That's fixable, but I ain't gonna fix it if we don't want

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

2009-07-16 Thread Lennart Regebro
that. After thinking about this a bit more I've realized that we have to have 2.4 support. We don't have a choice. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork (was: Announcing the 'Distribute' project)

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
that in the end it's so hard to come up with a good name that you usually have to settle for one that is not bad. So, something that is easy to remember, easy to say and doesn't mean anything rude in Norwegian. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33

Re: [Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
agree, and of course googled the scripts, and as far as I could find, there is nothing. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
as well, it's just way more work and more uglyness. The branch I have at google code support 2.3 to 3.1. But it's not pretty. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
disttools? Hmm. pkgutils distutils setuptools disttools Well, then we only need pkgtools and setuputils to complete the confusion. If that's good or bad is a matter of taste I guess. :) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
it. We don't want to rename it. We don't want to have a bikeshedding discussion. We just *need* to fix setuptools. The best name for this for is obviously setuptools, because that's what it is. It's setuptools. We only for it because you won't let us fix the main fork. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope

Re: [Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
___ Distutils-SIG maillist  -  distutils-...@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/7/17 Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com: Doesn't look like I can edit my vote. But OK to either Distribute or disttools. The link is at the bottom. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/7/17 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com: At 04:53 PM 7/17/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/7/17 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com: Setuptools was something I originally wrote for common requirements in my work projects...  then expanded into a funded project to provide Chandler

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
distribute as setuptools isn't a very big change. I think people can manage that one. ;) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http

[Distutils] [distribute] Python 3 support checked in, and fucked everything up.

2009-07-17 Thread Lennart Regebro
. Somebody is welcome to tell me how to fix this. I have no idea, and mercurial documentation doesn't help (and in fact gave absolutely no hint that this would happen). -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-18 Thread Lennart Regebro
versions of it as official 0.6 versions of setuptools. That is indeed the idea for the first release. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org

Re: [Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

2009-07-19 Thread Lennart Regebro
if we work together instead of each by ourself. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Fork mess

2009-07-19 Thread Lennart Regebro
this by yourself, that is in no way a problem. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Re: [Distutils] Fork mess

2009-07-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
people who are normally the friendliest ever. I don't know why that is, and I don't know if we can do something about it. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist

Re: [Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

2009-07-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
a problem, renaming this is relatively trivial. And if it becomes a problem (and I don't see how it would not) it's easier to argue for a rename from practical problems than hypothetical ones. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64

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