On 1-feb-2006, at 17:29, Andrew Jaffe wrote:
Hi All,
On a related note, is there a 'best' way to install python packages
on a
mac nowadays? It seems that there at least three possibilities:
- plain old setup.py install
- bdist_mpkg
- eggs
I've been using bdist_mpkg a lot recently, bu
Hi All,
On a related note, is there a 'best' way to install python packages on a
mac nowadays? It seems that there at least three possibilities:
- plain old setup.py install
- bdist_mpkg
- eggs
I've been using bdist_mpkg a lot recently, but this discussion is making
me think it may not the
On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> You REALLY should read the docs.
>
> Of course I should, and I did. I also did my floundering until I
> identified the problem before asking for help here. My comment here
> was
> bringing up the question of how,
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> You REALLY should read the docs.
Of course I should, and I did. I also did my floundering until I
identified the problem before asking for help here. My comment here was
bringing up the question of how, on OS-X, we want to recommend people
deal with having installed scrip
On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Christopher Barker wrote:
>> I guess I'll just try: 'easy_install matplotlib' and
>> see what happens.
>
> Well, first I had to get setuptools installed. cheeseshop has an egg,
> but how do I install that? So I downloaded the zip file, an
> Which said that it worked, but I couldn't find the easy_install script
> anywhere. Afer much floundering, I finally figured out that it put it in:
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin
>
> which is not on my $PATH. Should it be? or should there be links to
> those scripts in /
Christopher Barker wrote:
> I guess I'll just try: 'easy_install matplotlib' and
> see what happens.
Well, first I had to get setuptools installed. cheeseshop has an egg,
but how do I install that? So I downloaded the zip file, and in there
found that I needed to do:
$ python ez_setup.py
Whi
> > No, you didn't misinterpret my post, but according to Bob, you could
> > easily upload the eggs directly to cheeseshop -- why not do that?
>
> Because he's not finished testing it, yet? These particular packages are
> somewhat complicated and only recently have been eggified.
Technically becau
Christopher Barker wrote:
> No, you didn't misinterpret my post, but according to Bob, you could
> easily upload the eggs directly to cheeseshop -- why not do that?
Because he's not finished testing it, yet? These particular packages are
somewhat complicated and only recently have been eggified.
Charlie Moad wrote:
> I just thought I would mention that you don't see the mpl eggs on
> cheeseshop for a reason. The download url is set to mpl's sf files
> page. Setuptools is smart enough to look at cheeseshop and see the
> download url and then find the correct egg from there, hence
> 'easy
On 1/23/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Charlie Moad wrote:
>
> >>> Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the
> >>> source
> >>> download (hence the "upload").
> >>>
> >>> The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools,
> >>
On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Charlie Moad wrote:
>>> Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the
>>> source
>>> download (hence the "upload").
>>>
>>> The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools,
>>
>> Do you know of a package I can find on cheeseshop that is usin
> > Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the source
> > download (hence the "upload").
> >
> > The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools,
>
> Do you know of a package I can find on cheeseshop that is using
> setuptools? I'd like to get a sense of what features th
On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Well if they can build an egg, they can upload it to Cheese Shop with
>> one command. They probably just haven't invested the five minutes to
>> read over the setuptools documentation to see that it has an upload
>> featu
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Well if they can build an egg, they can upload it to Cheese Shop with
> one command. They probably just haven't invested the five minutes to
> read over the setuptools documentation to see that it has an upload
> feature.
*Believe me,* I've spent more than five minute
On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the source
>> download (hence the "upload").
>>
>> The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools,
>
> Do you know of a package I can find on cheesesh
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the source
> download (hence the "upload").
>
> The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools,
Do you know of a package I can find on cheeseshop that is using
setuptools? I'd like to get a sense of what
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Eggs and Cheese Shop already have that problem way solved.
>>
>> python setup.py register sdist bdist_egg upload -s
>>
>> That will register your package on Cheese Shop, build the egg and
>> source distro, and upload
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Eggs and Cheese Shop already have that problem way solved.
>
> python setup.py register sdist bdist_egg upload -s
>
> That will register your package on Cheese Shop, build the egg and
> source distro, and upload it to Cheese Shop with GPG signatures.
Does the egg itself g
On Jan 23, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> BTW2. This reminds me of the old PackageManager, Jack's plan about it
>> was to provide a list of easy-to-install packages that are known
>> to work on
>> OSX. Much can, and has, been said about the actual imple
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> BTW2. This reminds me of the old PackageManager, Jack's plan about it
> was to provide a list of easy-to-install packages that are known to work on
> OSX. Much can, and has, been said about the actual implementation, but the
> idea
> is a good one.
Exactly. The pro
On 20-jan-2006, at 3:04, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>>> There's no good reason to prefer eggs on pythonmac.org.
>>
>> I don't quite follow. Are you suggesting that we don't put any
>> eggs on
>> pythonmac? If so, then we do put non-egg packa
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Is there a difference? pkg bundles can contain anything that you can
> put on a filesystem plus arbitrary executable code to run at various
> points during the installation process, so there's nothing they can't
> do from a technical perspective.
That was my question.
On Jan 20, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Not yet.
>
> Not yet at all? or not yet with bdist_mpkg ?
Is there a difference? pkg bundles can contain anything that you can
put on a filesystem plus arbitrary executable code to run at various
points during
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Not yet.
Not yet at all? or not yet with bdist_mpkg ?
> We could mine Cheese Shop and list the pure python packages, the
> packages that have Mac OS X eggs, and the mpkgs.
And put the results on the pythonmac site? I like that.
-Chris
--
Christopher Barker, Ph.D.
O
On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see eggs used for everything that can be distributed
>> as an
>> egg... but as Ronald says, mpkgs still have their place for packages
>> that need to install Other Stuff, and as a transitional means
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> I'd like to see eggs used for everything that can be distributed as an
> egg... but as Ronald says, mpkgs still have their place for packages
> that need to install Other Stuff, and as a transitional means.
Can you put an egg in a mpkg?
> There's no good reason to pre
On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On 19-jan-2006, at 19:44, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> There are eggs up on Cheese Shop for use with easy_install.
>>
>> This brings up a question. I think it's a really good idea if we can
>> decide, as a community
On 19-jan-2006, at 19:44, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
> There are eggs up on Cheese Shop for use with easy_install.
>
> This brings up a question. I think it's a really good idea if we can
> decide, as a community, what the canonical way is to distribute
> packages
> to the
Bob Ippolito wrote:
There are eggs up on Cheese Shop for use with easy_install.
This brings up a question. I think it's a really good idea if we can
decide, as a community, what the canonical way is to distribute packages
to the MacPython world.
Currently, I think putting a *.mpkg on pythonmac.
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