Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes:
The idea is to parse from the Changelog the version metadata, and
record it in Setuptools metadata. Then the ‘pkg_resources’ module of
Setuptools allows programmatic access to that metadata.
One tricky aspect is: at what specific point should the
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:09:04 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
Le mardi 13 janvier 2015 08:00:06 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:24:00 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
To tell you the truth, I'm unable to
put your product to work.
If you follow the instructions in the README,
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:24:00 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
To tell you the truth, I'm unable to
put your product to work.
If you follow the instructions in the README, and it still doesn't work,
that's a bug and I will be happy to fix it.
If you insist on doing things your own way, and breaking
Ben Finney wrote:
[...]
The perils of duplicate sources of information: a Changelog makes claims
about which version is latest, but the packaging metadata comes from
somewhere else.
This problem is addressed quite well, in my opinion, by the Debian
packaging tools. The tools by default read
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info writes:
I currently read this metadata from the Python code itself. The
advantages of putting the metadata into the source code include:
- the source code is the definitive source of information about itself;
The Changelog document should
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:37:03 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
1) I downloaded pyprimes-0.2.1a.tar.gz
2) I extracted the relevant part,
the py files, the pyprimes subdirectory,
awful.py, compat23.py, factors.py, test.py, .. and put in
d:\junk
That is not the way packages work.
pyprimes is a
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info writes:
Ben Finney wrote:
The source has a ‘CHANGES.txt’ file which has no entry later than
version 0.2a. Why was the later version made, and when will the
change log be updated for that?
Ah, I knew I forgot something!
The perils of
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
I've now produced a small Python library which knows how to transform a
reST Changelog to package metadata; and how to get that package metadata
into and out of a Python distribution with Distutils.
The result is
