Re: [Catalog-sig] Dependencies

2012-06-18 Thread Dylan Jay
On 16/06/2012, at 11:04 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Donald Stufft > wrote: >> setuptools is a non standard addition to Python packaging which >> is impossible to safely extract requirements in a 100% generic >> way. > > That's not really fair. Setuptools tried hard

Re: [Catalog-sig] PyPI mirrors are all up to date

2012-04-16 Thread Dylan Jay
On 16/04/2012, at 11:30 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Why not go to the next level and get the script on this page to update a DNS load balancer with all green mirrors? I still think that mirror selection should be on the client side. First, if you have an infrastructure that updates the mir

Re: [Catalog-sig] PyPI mirrors are all up to date

2012-04-16 Thread Dylan Jay
On 16/04/2012, at 5:42 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: On Apr 16, 2012, at 12:10 AM, Dylan Jay wrote: Hi, Some DNS load balancing services have api's. For example edgedirector.com, but there others (and perhaps cheaper). Why not go to the next level and get the script on this pa

Re: [Catalog-sig] PyPI mirrors are all up to date

2012-04-16 Thread Dylan Jay
Hi, Some DNS load balancing services have api's. For example edgedirector.com, but there others (and perhaps cheaper). Why not go to the next level and get the script on this page to update a DNS load balancer with all green mirrors? Then switching mirrors would be automatic. ---

Re: [Catalog-sig] Proposal: close the PyPI file-replacement loophole

2012-02-01 Thread Dylan Jay
It it counts I'm +1. The problem with counting +1 or -1 is it assumes the silent majority would be similarly split in opinion. --- Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb: Multisite Performance Support P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/djay75 | linkedin.com/ in/d

Re: [Catalog-sig] parsing setuptools style requires.txt

2011-09-12 Thread Dylan Jay
On 12/09/2011, at 11:01 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Dylan Jay wrote: ... then why not allow a change to parsing of setuptools style dependencies? or perhaps point me to the discussion that explains what I'm missing. Its also been mentioned that in order to

Re: [Catalog-sig] parsing setuptools style requires.txt

2011-09-12 Thread Dylan Jay
On 12/09/2011, at 11:31 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Dylan Jay wrote: ... My interest in this is the idea that we could get distutils2 and/or zc.buildout to be able to download regular updates of metadata including dependencies, then perhaps those tools could avoid

[Catalog-sig] parsing setuptools style requires.txt

2011-09-12 Thread Dylan Jay
they should pick a compatible version. In the case of preinstalled packages, it could offer to downgrade Fred from 3.0 to 2.4. [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3407539&group_id=66150&atid=513503 [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2011-January/003452.ht