Re: [Distutils] command hooks...

2012-05-23 Thread Chris McDonough
On 05/21/2012 04:59 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On 5/16/12 6:26 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: On 05/16/2012 02:55 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On 5/16/12 3:58 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: Adding two more (packaging and distutils2) which are similarly semi-documented and which don't even solve the problems tha

[Distutils] pypm binary package format

2012-05-23 Thread Daniel Holth
I was curious about the pypm binary package format. They are in the .tar.gz format (but with .pypm extension). They contain two files: info.json: {u'author': u'Zope Foundation and Contributors', u'author_email': u'zope-...@zope.org', u'description': '...', u'home_page': u'http://pypi.python.or

Re: [Distutils] command hooks...

2012-05-23 Thread Robert Park
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On 5/23/12 8:16 AM, Robert Park wrote: >> It's absolutely critical that any replacement for distutils have >> built-in functionality for installed python code being able to query >> at run-time the location that data files were placed at instal

[Distutils] command hooks...

2012-05-23 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 23 May 2012 07:48, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On 5/23/12 8:16 AM, Robert Park wrote: > >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >>> If you are a packager for a project, you can describe in details your >>> data >>> files, and add more metadata that are understood by PyPI. >>> >>> I