Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Moore
On 27 August 2013 00:15, PJ Eby wrote: > You pounced on a tiny piece of my email to Paul, in which I mainly > expressed confusion about his statements about "cost". I was having > trouble understanding what sort of "costs" he meant, and in subsequent > discussion realized that it's because he an

Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 August 2013 17:01, Paul Moore wrote: > On 27 August 2013 00:15, PJ Eby wrote: >> >> You pounced on a tiny piece of my email to Paul, in which I mainly >> expressed confusion about his statements about "cost". I was having >> trouble understanding what sort of "costs" he meant, and in subse

Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Moore
On 27 August 2013 10:00, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Just to scare people though... I did come up with a potentially decent > use case for .pth files: they're actually a reasonable solution for > sharing distributions between virtual environments in a way that works > cross platform and on all currentl

Re: [Distutils] PEP449 - Removal of the PyPI Mirror Auto Discovery and Naming Scheme

2013-08-27 Thread holger krekel
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 16:47 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Aug 10, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > [snip] > > > I guess I'm going to ask for some pronouncement on this? It's been two weeks > with no real feedback. > > FWIW tangentially related to this proposal, g.pypi.python.

Re: [Distutils] PEP449 - Removal of the PyPI Mirror Auto Discovery and Naming Scheme

2013-08-27 Thread Donald Stufft
On Aug 27, 2013, at 7:10 AM, holger krekel wrote: > Being one of the people who wanted to but didn't feedback (still in vacation, > writing from a camping place with ssh/mutt and lousy connectivity FWIW): Ah! I hope you're having fun :) > > - the PEP claims that PEP381 mirroring protocol con

Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread Vinay Sajip
Nick Coghlan gmail.com> writes: > Just to scare people though... I did come up with a potentially decent > use case for .pth files: they're actually a reasonable solution for > sharing distributions between virtual environments in a way that works > cross platform and on all currently used Python

Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2013 05:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > PJE and Jason were probably the only other current distutils-sig > participants familiar enough with setuptools and pkg_resources to > understand the distinction between that aspect, the default version >

Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread PJ Eby
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 27 August 2013 00:15, PJ Eby wrote: > None of these things is wrong. It is *spreading* FUD (and in particular, > doing so cynically to undermine a proposal) that is wrong, and I hope I > didn't do that - I certainly did not intend to and I'm

Re: [Distutils] Multi-version import support for wheel files

2013-08-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 28 Aug 2013 01:25, "Tres Seaver" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/27/2013 05:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > PJE and Jason were probably the only other current distutils-sig > > participants familiar enough with setuptools and pkg_resources to > > understand

Re: [Distutils] PEP449 - Removal of the PyPI Mirror Auto Discovery and Naming Scheme

2013-08-27 Thread Christian Theune
Howdi, On 17. Aug2013, at 7:55 AM, Christian Theune wrote: > > Sorry for the stealth mode. The long thread has been sitting in my Inbox > while the last week was very busy and we're hosting a sprint at our offices > right now. > > I hope I will get around to reading and responding early next

Re: [Distutils] buildout bootstrap.py doesn't work on Sabayon Linux with system python

2013-08-27 Thread Benedek Zoltan
@Marius Gedminas @Ralf Schmitt Thanks for explanation and the tipp. Cheers Zoltan Benedek___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig