[Distutils] Process for taking over abandoned packages

2014-10-13 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
ld consider putting some wording around handling exceptional circumstances, and/or dealing with "squatter" type scenarios. I realise I have simplified a few things, but I did so in the interest of getting to what I thought the most important aspects were. Let me know if yo

Re: [Distutils] Process for taking over abandoned packages

2014-10-16 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- -- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"

Re: [Distutils] PEP for dependencies on libraries like BLAS

2015-09-18 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hi all, Sorry for the necropost :) "Life" has been happening and I wasn't monitoring the discussion of the dependency PEP for a while. I have been reviewing the discussion here. I thought I'd clear up a few things from my perspective. Regarding practical examples: https://youtu.be/Fqknoni5aX0?lis

[Distutils] Avoiding cursed versions...

2016-03-08 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
I'm not aware of a way to avoid 'cursed versions' of packages. For example, pandas 0.17.0 has an issue with duplicate rows. This bug is fixed in 0.17.1, but also the previous version was fine. I apologies if there is logic to handle this situation. I would like to express this as a "latest version

Re: [Distutils] Avoiding cursed versions...

2016-03-08 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Thanks James, sorry for the n00b level question. On 9 March 2016 at 15:59, James Polley wrote: > pandas!=0.17.0,>=0.16.0 > > > should do what you need, I think > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg < > tleeuwenb...@gmail.com> wrote: >