Re: pyinstall: A New Hope
I'd be interested to know people's experiences with trying it out for packaging Python distributions for Debian. how would it help? a Python distribution is a set of source/binary packages which we do package separately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pyinstall: A New Hope
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd be interested to know people's experiences with trying it out for packaging Python distributions for Debian. how would it help? a Python distribution is a set of source/binary packages which we do package separately. I think you've fallen prey to the unfortunate terminology differences between Python and operating systems. In Python, a package is what's available for run-time import; it's a namespace available on the system which contains modules ready for import URL:http://docs.python.org/dist/python-terms.html. It's not the same thing as an operating system package. In Python, a distribution is a collection of modules and packages distributed in source or binary form. It's what Debian would call a package URL:http://docs.python.org/dist/distutils-term.html. The pyinstall project is a means for dealing with Python distributions; it is analogous to (and in fact is built upon, and aims to improve on) distutils and setuptools. Sorry for any confusion. -- \ “Reichel's Law: A body on vacation tends to remain on vacation | `\unless acted upon by an outside force.” —Carol Reichel | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pyinstall: A New Hope
Howdy all, Ian Bicking, who has been wrestling for some time with Python and packaging issues, has released the tool pyinstall. Have you ever been frustrated by easy_install? Yeah, me neither. But I have heard whispers of discontent. So I'm introducing a new tool for the installation of Python packages: pyinstall. pyinstall is mostly easy_install compatible. That means it finds distributions in the same way as easy_install and it installs packages via setuptools. If you are familiar with easy_install you'll know how to use pyinstall right away. This is not a repudiation of the mechanisms of easy_install, but a refinement. What does it refine? […] URL:http://www.openplans.org/projects/topp-engineering/blog/2008/09/24/pyinstall-a-new-hope/ pyinstall is available in the Cheese Shop URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyinstall. I'd be interested to know people's experiences with trying it out for packaging Python distributions for Debian. -- \ “I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX | `\ collect.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
