Re: [Distutils] Fwd: Adding a "Pure Python" flag to PyPI

2012-03-05 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > However, downloading the source distribution and inspecting it should > be fairly reliable. Depends on what you want to find out. I know a bunch of packages which contain optional C extensions. These certainly aren't pure-python and cont

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: Adding a "Pure Python" flag to PyPI

2012-03-05 Thread Donald Stufft
I'm +1 for this, and for packaging to do it automatically. On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" (mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de)> wrote: > > > I can't see a way of reliably establishing whether a distribution is > > > "pure Pyth

[Distutils] Spec for the egg-info format

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Moore
Is there a good spec of the egg-info (directory) format anywhere? I've found various bits, notably in the setuptools documentation, but I'm trying to get the details clear: - What files are mandatory? - What format should files be in (specifically, line-ending format and to an extent encoding) - S

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: Adding a "Pure Python" flag to PyPI

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> I can't see a way of reliably establishing whether a distribution is >> "pure Python", and yet distutils/packaging clearly has that >> information available when building. Would it be worthwhile adding a >> "pure Python" flag to the PyPI

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: Adding a "Pure Python" flag to PyPI

2012-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I can't see a way of reliably establishing whether a distribution is > "pure Python", and yet distutils/packaging clearly has that > information available when building. Would it be worthwhile adding a > "pure Python" flag to the PyPI classifiers, which could be > automatically populated by packa

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: Adding a "Pure Python" flag to PyPI

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Foord
On 5 March 2012 18:43, Paul Moore wrote: > [Resending because I don't think the first try made it to the list...] > > I'm trying to identify which distributions in PyPI need to be made > available in binary format for people without C compilers (i.e., > distributions including C extensions). I co

[Distutils] Fwd: Adding a "Pure Python" flag to PyPI

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Moore
[Resending because I don't think the first try made it to the list...] I'm trying to identify which distributions in PyPI need to be made available in binary format for people without C compilers (i.e., distributions including C extensions). I could use the classifier information, but as that is u

[Distutils] setuptools and scripts on Windows

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Barker
Hi folks, IIIC, there has been a recent change in the setuptools executable that is distributed with the Windows installer (and source). This executable is used as a stub to launch scripts that have been installed using distutils "scripts" system -- i.e put into C:\Python27\Scripts, or similar) T