Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] distlib updated with resources API

2012-10-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 28 September 2012 18:05, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote: Are we trying to kill setuptools? I'm not entirely sure, but we should stop trying to do that. The migration should take essentially forever as soon as it

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] distlib updated with resources API

2012-10-04 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com writes: I noticed that you put the classifiers list as a string (same for platform). I think it is expected to be a list, no ? That's an oversight; there are doubtless others,

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] distlib updated with resources API

2012-10-04 Thread Daniel Holth
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 September 2012 18:05, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote: Are we trying to kill setuptools? I'm not entirely sure, but we should stop trying to

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] distlib updated with resources API

2012-10-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Some level of standardised functionality for building and installing. By standardised, I mean that given *any* sdist, no matter what build tool it uses under the scenes, there is a way of saying build this, and put the

[Distutils] distlib updated - comments sought

2012-10-04 Thread Vinay Sajip
I've updated distlib as follows: 1. I've added support for the equivalent of pkg_resources.resource_filename for returning a true filesystem path for a resource. I've added info about this in the Distlib's design document, though the reference API has not been fully updated - I thought

Re: [Distutils] distlib updated - comments sought

2012-10-04 Thread Daniel Holth
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I've updated distlib as follows: 1. I've added support for the equivalent of pkg_resources.resource_filename for returning a true filesystem path for a resource. I've added info about this in the Distlib's design