On 13 August 2013 01:01, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Just a thought -- is there any need in this day and age
for extensions to be limited to 3 characters?
There's a bug affecting PowerShell, which Microsoft have pretty much
confirmed that they won't fix, which means that
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 20:55 +, Vinay Sajip wrote:
Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io writes:
Hopefully this all will solve this problem, as it is right now if you use
setuptools entry points then Wheels erroneously pretend to be platform
agnostic.
That's not unreasonable, as long
Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk writes:
While distlib currently uses bespoke launchers, I plan to update it before
the next release to use the PEP 397 launcher compiled with SCRIPT_WRAPPER.
One more data point - the launcher currently used by distlib is found at
[1]. Since it doesn't
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Jason R. Coombs wrote:
6. Two to three files to do the job of one. In fact, the job isn't
much more than to invoke code elsewhere, so it seems ugly to require
as many as
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com wrote:
1. Renames, deletes, and other actions must be synchronized.
Why are you manually deleting or altering executables? Why are you
renaming them at all?
I've been using .exe wrappers since they were written, and have never
On 13 August 2013 16:58, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
5. Files in use can't be replaced. Because a Windows executable that's
in use
is not allowed to be overwritten,
But they can be renamed, and deleted afterwards. For example, when
updating, you can do the simple dance of:
1.
On 13 August 2013 17:33, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On another point you mention, Cygwin Python should be using Unix-style shell
script wrappers, not Windows-style exes, surely? The whole point of Cygwin
is that it emulates Unix, after all... So I don't see that as an argument
On Aug 10, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
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Bueller?
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
This works, but is an ugly, fragile workaround. It's *not* a huge problem,
it's just how executables work on Windows, and all installers have to deal
with this dance (it's why a lot of things need a reboot to complete
On 13 August 2013 18:08, Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 August 2013 17:33, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On another point you mention, Cygwin Python should be using Unix-style
shell
script wrappers, not Windows-style exes, surely? The whole point of
Cygwin
Just $0.02 from a user...
I'm primarily an OS-X user these days, but have to do Windows once in
a while, and help others do Windows (including as an intro to Python
instructor)
Once I discovered setuptools develop mode, I never looked bak -- it
is simpl;y THE way to develop code, particularly if
On 13 August 2013 21:20, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
chris.bar...@noaa.govwrote:
Conclusions:
1) an extra bunch of files is a on-issue for most users -- we just
need something that works.
Agreed - the extra files clutter is a relatively small issue.
2) the exe launcher is a bit fragile and
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[mailto:distutils-sig-bounces+jaraco=jaraco@python.org] On Behalf Of
Paul Moore
Sent: Tuesday, 13 August, 2013 17:28
In the interests of getting more concrete data, can I suggest that
setuptools add an off-by-default option, which can be set globally using a
config
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
3) I'd rather not have to mess with PATHEXT, and I particularly don't
want to have to tell my students to do it -- environment variables are
a pain, and somehow PATHEXT has been fragile for me (and I don't use
Cygwin)
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