Re: [Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote ... It isn't my intention to provide daily builds. I just happen wanted to make quick and dirty releases while stuff is new. These are like alpha release, but I'm leveraging the revision tagging to automate generation of release numbers.

Re: [Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-29 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 06:19 AM 6/29/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: 1. If I'm going to edit setup.cfg, I might as well edit setup.py Note that you needn't edit anything if you use the --tag-build option, e.g.: python setup.py egg_info --tag-build=snap3 register sdist bdist_egg upload Assuming that setup.cfg

[Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
If I do something like: python2.4 setup.py register bdist_egg upload as recommended in the setuptools documentation, I end up with 2 releases in PyPi. One has all my descriptive information and the other has the egg. One or more will or won't be hidden according some rule that I

Re: [Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-28 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:16 PM 6/28/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: Interesting. I thought that --tag-svn-revision was a common/recommended practice. It *is* -- but not for releases being sent to PyPI. a dev-r release is a development snapshot rather than an official release. I followed the advice to have

Re: [Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jun 28, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 05:16 PM 6/28/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: Interesting. I thought that --tag-svn-revision was a common/ recommended practice. It *is* -- but not for releases being sent to PyPI. a dev-r release is a development snapshot

Re: [Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-28 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:42 PM 6/28/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: If I want people to be able to download it, I have to upload it somewhere. Not necessarily. If you have a pure-Python package, and your target audience has Subversion, you can provide a URL on PyPI that always obtains the most recent possible

Re: [Distutils] Weird PyPI Behavior

2006-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 05:42 PM 6/28/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: If I want people to be able to download it, I have to upload it somewhere. Not necessarily. If you have a pure-Python package, and your target audience has Subversion, you can provide a URL