Re: [Catalog-sig] [Distutils] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals

2008-10-07 Thread David Cournapeau
Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:04 PM, zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 5/ ideally, they should be one and only one version of a given package >>> in an OS-based installation >> -1 -- This is the strong preference of the folks who package software for >> OSes -- Debian, Fedora, e

[Catalog-sig] Simultaneous multi-version support (was: pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals)

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll also note that the require in setuptools-generated scripts causes > pretty frequent problems for people, all to support this multi-version > feature that no one really uses. I agree heartily that it seems to cause more trouble than it's worth — for m

Re: [Catalog-sig] Simultaneous multi-version support

2008-10-07 Thread Robert Kern
Ben Finney wrote: Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'll also note that the require in setuptools-generated scripts causes pretty frequent problems for people, all to support this multi-version feature that no one really uses. I agree heartily that it seems to cause more trouble than it

Re: [Catalog-sig] [Distutils] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals

2008-10-07 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:58 PM 10/7/2008 -0400, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:07 AM 10/7/2008 -0400, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> The -m feature of setuptools is nice, but it activates one version at >> a time, and >> this is globlal to Python unles

Re: [Catalog-sig] [Distutils] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals

2008-10-07 Thread Ian Bicking
Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:07 AM 10/7/2008 -0400, Tarek Ziadé wrote: The -m feature of setuptools is nice, but it activates one version at a time, and this is globlal to Python unless each application is handling the versio

Re: [Catalog-sig] [Distutils] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals

2008-10-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:07 AM 10/7/2008 -0400, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> The -m feature of setuptools is nice, but it activates one version at >> a time, and >> this is globlal to Python unless each application is handling the >> version swit

Re: [Catalog-sig] [Distutils] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals

2008-10-07 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 10:07 AM 10/7/2008 -0400, Tarek Ziadé wrote: The -m feature of setuptools is nice, but it activates one version at a time, and this is globlal to Python unless each application is handling the version switch, wich is pretty heavy. With or without the -m switch, scripts installed by setuptool

Re: [Catalog-sig] Distutils and PyPI : P4-Sprint in D.C.

2008-10-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We are going to have a P4-sprint (pre-pre-pre-PEP sprint) in D.C. >> during the Plone Conference. > > Very cool. > > Given the venue, should people exp

Re: [Catalog-sig] Distutils and PyPI : P4-Sprint in D.C.

2008-10-07 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are going to have a P4-sprint (pre-pre-pre-PEP sprint) in D.C. > during the Plone Conference. Very cool. Given the venue, should people expect that they're welcome in person even if not associated with the Plone conferen

[Catalog-sig] Distutils and PyPI : P4-Sprint in D.C.

2008-10-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hey all, We are going to have a P4-sprint (pre-pre-pre-PEP sprint) in D.C. during the Plone Conference. The idea is to try to bring the discussions that have been going on in the mailing lists into the next stage. Please join us if you are interested, even if you are not in D.C. http://www.open

Re: [Catalog-sig] [Distutils] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals

2008-10-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:04 PM, zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 5/ ideally, they should be one and only one version of a given package >> in an OS-based installation > > -1 -- This is the strong preference of the folks who package software for > OSes -- Debian, Fedora, etc. -- but it is not ne