On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ian Bicking <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Darren Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> Questions concerning pip: >> >> * Is there a roadmap or timeline concerning installing from windows >> exe or msi files? I didn't see anything at bitbucket. > > There isn't a timeline, as we don't have anyone actively contributing > with respect to Windows. > >> * Is there a roadmap or timeline concerning extras? I didn't see >> anything at bitbucket. > > There isn't really; extras would be nice, but there hasn't been much > demand for them. pip requirement files serve a similar purpose though > in a somewhat different way.
I brought this up on the virtualenv mailing list once before. Requirements files serve a very different use-case. If I want to define a project extra like foo[traits_qt4] that depends on a project with an extra like traits[qt4] > 3.2.0, I can't just list traits[qt4] > 3.2.0 in my requirements file, because pip is not designed to recursively check the (arbitrarily-named) requirements files of the dependencies I declare in my own requirements file. I have to keep track of not only my projects dependencies, but my dependencies dependencies, and on and on. >> * I have a bit of time after hours, how can I help? > > If you are a Windows developer, Windows help for pip would be great. I distribute windows installers for a couple projects, but I'm not a windows developer... > A shorter time commitment is to download pip and run the tests on > Windows and report problems, as it's unfortunately quite possible > we've introduced Windows regressions. This sounds like a good place to start. Regards, Darren _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
