Re: [Distutils] distlib updated - comments sought

2012-10-06 Thread Antonio Cavallo
On 5 Oct 2012, at 20:28, Stanley A. Klein wrote: > I assume that by an "installer" you mean the combination of package > building (done by e.g., rpmbuild) and installation (done by e.g., rpm or > yum). Hi, I think you've hit the jackpot hereā€¦ Here few lesson learnt using rpm and python at fairly

Re: [Distutils] distlib updated - comments sought

2012-10-06 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05.10.2012 19:24, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 October 2012 17:04, Daniel Holth wrote: > >> ~1300 of the ~2 packages on pypi have trouble using setup.py as >> their build system / metadata source format. > > That's interesting information. Do you know in what way they have > trouble with setu

Re: [Distutils] distlib updated - comments sought

2012-10-06 Thread Vinay Sajip
Matthias Klose ubuntu.com> writes: > > PS: are there really ~2 packages on pypi, or do you count old versions > too? > Not counting old versions, my current list of packages where an archive is hosted on PyPI numbers a little under 18,000. While not bang up to date, it's unlikely to be t