[Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

2009-11-15 Thread Ram Rachum
Hey guys, Please take a look at my question about including package data: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1734373/including-package-data-with-distribute/ (I don't care whether you answer here or on StackOverflow.) Ram. ___ Distutils-SIG maillist

Re: [Distutils] People want CPAN

2009-11-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jeremy Kloth jeremy.kl...@gmail.com wrote: [..] So did you end up changing the way options are passed to the commands, or do you just have a specific config command that looks over other  options passed to the other commands ? It is done with the 'config'

Re: [Distutils] People want CPAN

2009-11-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: And have the community create new ExtensionBuilder subclasses that could be registered like command. I don't see a need for registering anything. You should just be able to explicitly say what

Re: [Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

2009-11-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ram Rachum cool...@cool-rr.com wrote: Hey guys, Please take a look at my question about including package data: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1734373/including-package-data-with-distribute/ (I don't care whether you answer here or on StackOverflow.)

Re: [Distutils] People want CPAN

2009-11-15 Thread Greg Ewing
Tarek Ziadé wrote: But the result is similar, and explicit imports should work too, so maybe registeries are just sugar on the top of something we first need to make work. It's completely unnecessary sugar, if you ask me. I don't see what's bad about importing functionality you want to use.

[Distutils] Wiki page for ideas and proposals

2009-11-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi all, I have created a Wiki page that gives an overview on the PEPs that are currently drafted and some of the proposals that were mentioned here on the list. You can find it at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/DiscussionOverview I would be happy if you could add your own

Re: [Distutils] Deleting build directory

2009-11-15 Thread Ram Rachum
Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au writes: cool-RR cool-rr at cool-rr.com writes: What I really want is never having to worry about the build directory being around after doing any actions with `setup.py`. Do you have any other suggestion? If you have determined that ‘setup.py

Re: [Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

2009-11-15 Thread Ram Rachum
Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com writes: Until then, I would recommend using an explicit MANIFEST.in and stick with plain Distutils options, You said on StackOverflow to look in distutils' docs to read about the template language for MANIFEST.in.

Re: [Distutils] Including package data with Distribute

2009-11-15 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ram Rachum cool...@cool-rr.com wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com writes: Until then, I would recommend using an explicit MANIFEST.in and stick with plain Distutils options, You said on StackOverflow to look in distutils' docs to read about the