Re: [Distutils] easy_install moinmoin does not work, (very) old url

2009-06-20 Thread P.J. Eby
At 02:10 PM 6/20/2009 -0700, rupert.thurner wrote: there is http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MoinMoin/1.8.4, and The distribution filename is 'moin-1.8.4', but the package name registered on Pypi is "MoinMoin". This won't work. You may be successful by running: "easy_install http://static.moinm

[Distutils] easy_install moinmoin does not work, (very) old url

2009-06-20 Thread rupert.thurner
there is http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MoinMoin/1.8.4, and http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=doap&name=MoinMoin&version=1.8.4. but instlaling moin somehow does not work here. what might be the reason for this? the download links easy_install displays seem outdated. # easy_install moin Searching fo

Re: [Distutils] Autobuild packages using snakebite

2009-06-20 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:24:39 +0900, David Cournapeau > that's the job of the infrastructure. All those problems have been > solved by the opensuse build service, which is open source (in Perl for > the server part, though). Before stating what is possible and not, it > would be wise to study other

Re: [Distutils] Autobuild packages using snakebite

2009-06-20 Thread David Cournapeau
David Lyon wrote: > > I struggle with seeing how that would work. My easyinstall is always > downloading additional packages (as it should). the answer is obvious: it should not download anything from the wild. That's one of the big reason why so many people literally hate this setuptools feature,

Re: [Distutils] zip vs tar.gz at PyPI

2009-06-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> We are talking about the "preferred" default archive format in Distutils-SIG. > > I was wondering if you could give us some statistics on the various > archives format used at PyPI. Here are some statistics: total number of uploaded files: - .tar.gz or .tgz files: 16667 - .tar.bz2 files:

Re: [Distutils] Autobuild packages using snakebite

2009-06-20 Thread David Lyon
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:17:12 +0900, David Cournapeau >> There's really no way you can stop someone from misusing your >> infrastructure if you go for building any arbitrary package that gets >> uploaded to PyPI. But CPU cycles can be counted and likewise network usage... > Forbidding any network

Re: [Distutils] Autobuild packages using snakebite

2009-06-20 Thread David Cournapeau
Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > this is really getting off-topic, BTW. > > David Lyon wrote: > >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:24:21 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> >>> Leonardo Santagada wrote: >>> The biggest problem I see is security, but if people are really interested in this