Re: [Distutils] patch: ez_setup.py: separate default version and minimum version of setuptools

2007-09-27 Thread zooko
> If you invoke 'use_setuptools("0.6c5")', you would get the same > behavior with an unpatched ez_setup.py. That's true, but the oldest version of setuptools that we support is 0.6a9, which comes with Ubuntu Dapper, but that one can't be downloaded from pypi. Therefore there is no version n

Re: [Distutils] Git plugin for setuptools

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:30 PM 9/27/2007 -0400, Yannick Gingras wrote: >"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Distribution would be best; I don't want setuptools invoking > > executables on the off-chance that they're installed. It would add > > overhead to every operation. To be considered for inclusi

Re: [Distutils] patches: ez_setup.py: don't import setuptools into your current address space in order to learn its version number

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 01:29 PM 9/27/2007 -0600, zooko wrote: > > In other words, we could maybe fix this for "setup.py install", but > > not for easy_install. I'm not sure how useful that is, though, > > since if you have setuptools installed, why download "foo", unpack > > it, and "setup.py install", when you can j

Re: [Distutils] patch: ez_setup.py: separate default version and minimum version of setuptools

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 12:56 PM 9/27/2007 -0600, zooko wrote: >>>Thank you for setuptools! We are using it in the Allmydata-Tahoe >>>project [1]. We've patched ez_setup.py so that installation can >>>proceed if an older version of setuptools is already present, as long >>>as that version is not too old. This allows

Re: [Distutils] patches: ez_setup.py: don't import setuptools into your current address space in order to learn its version number

2007-09-27 Thread zooko
> In other words, we could maybe fix this for "setup.py install", but > not for easy_install. I'm not sure how useful that is, though, > since if you have setuptools installed, why download "foo", unpack > it, and "setup.py install", when you can just "easy_install foo" in > one go? Oh, p

Re: [Distutils] patch: ez_setup.py: separate default version and minimum version of setuptools

2007-09-27 Thread zooko
>> Thank you for setuptools! We are using it in the Allmydata-Tahoe >> project [1]. We've patched ez_setup.py so that installation can >> proceed if an older version of setuptools is already present, as long >> as that version is not too old. This allows ez_setup.py to work >> seamlessly in more

Re: [Distutils] licenses for ez_setup and virtual_python

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 04:27 AM 9/26/2007 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: >We'd like to distribute ez_setup.py and virtual_python.py with a good >number of our packages. I suspect ez_setup.py is licensed under the >same dual ZPL/PSF license as is setuptools. I'm not sure how >virtual_python.py is licensed (I got it fr

Re: [Distutils] Git plugin for setuptools

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
(Please direct emails like this to the distutils-sig in future.) At 12:54 PM 9/27/2007 -0400, Yannick Gingras wrote: >Hi, > I coded a Git plugin for Setuptools. I posted to the distutils >mailing list but my message doesn't seem to show up. A spam filter >must have eaten it. > >The plugin is

Re: [Distutils] easy_install should consider the development status of packages

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:18 AM 9/15/2007 -0400, Alexander Michael wrote: >A related desire of mine is to have both the latest stable release of >an egg and the latest development release installed with *the latest >stable release being the default* (i.e. listed, with all its stable >dependencies, in easy-install.pth)

Re: [Distutils] patch: ez_setup.py: separate default version and minimum version of setuptools

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:33 PM 9/14/2007 -0700, zooko wrote: >Folks: > >Thank you for setuptools! We are using it in the Allmydata-Tahoe >project [1]. We've patched ez_setup.py so that installation can >proceed if an older version of setuptools is already present, as long >as that version is not too old. This allo

Re: [Distutils] patches: ez_setup.py: don't import setuptools into your current address space in order to learn its version number

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 03:29 PM 9/18/2007 -0600, zooko wrote: >Folks: > >We're gradually converting the allmydata.org tahoe project [1] and >its spin-off packages to use setuptools. One problem that comes up >is that ez_setup.py might require a newer version of setuptools than >the version of setuptools already insta

Re: [Distutils] easy_install should consider the development status of packages

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:30 AM 9/15/2007 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: >Hi, > >currently, lxml has both a stable release series (1.3.x) and an unstable alpha >release series (2.0alphaX) on PyPI. When you "easy_install lxml", you get the >2.0alpha version. I don't think that's what users expect and it's definitely >not

Re: [Distutils] Problem adding a new setup command..

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:09 PM 9/11/2007 -0400, Etienne Robillard wrote: > % (source, command_name, option)) >distutils.errors.DistutilsOptionError: error in >command line: command 'install_media' has no such >option 'a rgs' > >Here's the setuptools.Command subclass: > >from setuptools import Command >class i

Re: [Distutils] What is the legal status of virtual-python.py

2007-09-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:33 PM 9/11/2007 +0300, Ignas Mikalajunas wrote: > Hello, I would like to reuse pieces of code from > http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/virtual-python.py As far as my contributions to that code, you may consider them public domain. I suspect Ian would say the same.

Re: [Distutils] install_recommends proposal

2007-09-27 Thread Martijn Faassen
Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] > My first response, not based on actually looking at the proposal is that > a simple 'or' condition would not be sufficient, as the package manager > doesnt' know which clause in the condition to look at to find the > preferred version. My second response upon pond

Re: [Distutils] install_recommends proposal

2007-09-27 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:38:49PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> I understand how the name "install_recommends" could be confusing >> terminology > > Yes it is > >> given the way package managers use the term 'recommended >> packages', which means extra that you coul

Re: [Distutils] install_recommends proposal

2007-09-27 Thread Martijn Faassen
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 10:38 PM 9/26/2007 +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] > Note that the previous proposal for having a way to specify "or'ed" > conditions would allow this, but it isn't going to happen until I get > an 0.6 final out so I can focus on refactoring and new features in 0.7

Re: [Distutils] setuptools fails to install package data from ZIP distribution

2007-09-27 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 26 Sep 2007, at 19:13 , Phillip J. Eby wrote: > I've checked in a fix for both the 0.7 trunk and the 0.6 branch; > you can update with "easy_install setuptools==dev" or "easy_install > setuptools==dev06". Wow, that was quick. Thanks! ___ Distut