On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> PJ Eby telecommunity.com> writes:
>
>>
>> In pkg_resources, entry points are references to any importable
>> object. They don't have to be callables.
>>
>> Note, however, that if you load an entry point which is a module, then
>> of course the
PJ Eby telecommunity.com> writes:
> More to the point, though, if it's not possible for someone to create
> a wrapper to reimplement these portions of the pkg_resources API, then
> it's going to be harder to get people to port their code.
I will give some thought to migration concerns. I'm not s
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> That's a good point. Actually, writing a "local PyPI server" is much
> easier if all you have to implement is the simple static page
> interface. So I take back some of my objection - both XML-RPC and the
> static page interface make sense to sup
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> Clearly, distlib can't do things exactly
> the way they're done in pkg_resources and setuptools, since those are not
> considered suitable to go into the stdlib,
The two aren't 100% connected, even assuming the antecedent were true.
Originally
PJ Eby telecommunity.com> writes:
>
> In pkg_resources, entry points are references to any importable
> object. They don't have to be callables.
>
> Note, however, that if you load an entry point which is a module, then
> of course the module code will be executed as a side-effect, so
> techni
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> What do *you* mean by entry point? My understanding is that it represents the
> start of some executable code. Wikipedia:
>
> "In computer programming, an entry point is a memory address, corresponding
> to a
> point in the code of a computer p
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
> How much would it cost to endorse semver?
I endorse it for free. :-)
Seriously, if a version doesn't conform, I probably don't want to be
using that piece of software, because it's versioning model is overly
complicated. Integers are cheape
I like semver. My favorite part is point 12:
Precedence MUST be calculated by separating the version into major,
minor, patch, pre-release, and build identifiers in that order. Major,
minor, and patch versions are always compared numerically. Pre-release
and build version precedence MUST be determ
