On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Gael Varoquaux
wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:29:24PM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Perhaps this could be useful:
>> http://checkinstall.izto.org/
>
> Yes, checkinstall is really cool. However, I tend to prefer things with
> no magic that I don't have to sandbo
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:29:24PM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> Perhaps this could be useful:
> http://checkinstall.izto.org/
Yes, checkinstall is really cool. However, I tend to prefer things with
no magic that I don't have to sandbox to know what they are doing. This
is why I am also happy to hea
David Cournapeau wrote:
> The idea would be that for a few major distributions at least, you
> would have .rpm available on the repository. If you install from
> sources, there would be a few mechanisms to avoid your exact issue
> (like maybe defaulting to --user kind of installs). Of course, it c
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
wrote:
>
> Do you here mean automatic generation of Ubuntu debs, Debian debs, Windows
> MSI installer, Windows EXE installer, and so on? (If so then great!)
Yes (although this is not yet implemented). In particular on windows,
I want to imple
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Schwarzburg
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I would like to add a comment from the user perspective:
>>>
>>> - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and why
>
Stefan Schwarzburg wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to add a comment from the user perspective:
>
> - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and
> why I will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you
> listed), is that they break my installation (debian/ubuntu). The ma
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Schwarzburg
wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to add a comment from the user perspective:
>
> - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and why I
> will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you listed), is that
> they break my i
Hi,
I would like to add a comment from the user perspective:
- the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and why I
will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you listed), is that
they break my installation (debian/ubuntu). The main advantage of these
kinds of linux
(warning, long post)
Hi there,
As some of you already know, the packaging and distributions of
scientific python packages have been a constant source of frustration.
Open source is about making it easy for anyone to use software how
they see fit, and I think python packaging infrastructure has
