Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Marcus Smith
> > PPUG. Also by the way, is that the right acronym for quick reference? :) > I guess so, or maybe "PUG". It's not pretty though. (btw, HHGTP was the acronym for the older "Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging") > which information will > be off-loaded to the documentation for the other projects

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2014 17:15, "Marcus Smith" wrote: >> >> Fyi, the "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved from bitbucket to github. >> >> The new project home is here: >> https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide >> and the built site is

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Marcus Smith
> > > > As stated in the README, "The guide is part of a larger effort to > improve all of the packaging and installation docs, including pip, > setuptools, virtualenv, and wheel. Ultimately, users need more than a > "guide" to feel confident about the current tools. They need complete, > accurate

Re: [Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

2014-01-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 16 Jan 2014 10:03, "Marcus Smith" wrote: >> >> >> My apologies. I misread N[.N]+ as the '+' meaning "one or more" (as in > > > maybe N[(.N)+] would be clearer. > > all of (.N)+ is optional > but when it's present it can be .N or .N.N or .N.N.N etc... Yeah, that's a good idea. Simply switchi

Re: [Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

2014-01-15 Thread Marcus Smith
> > > My apologies. I misread N[.N]+ as the '+' meaning "one or more" (as in > maybe N[(.N)+] would be clearer. all of (.N)+ is optional but when it's present it can be .N or .N.N or .N.N.N etc... ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.o

Re: [Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

2014-01-15 Thread Vinay Sajip
> My apologies. I misread N[.N]+ as the '+' meaning "one or more" (as in > regular expressions). Marcus pointed my mistake out to me. It reads the same way to me - I would expect N[.N]* to indicate that a single numeric component is valid. Still, as long as the regex is right ... distlib has add

Re: [Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Moore
On 15 January 2014 23:13, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 16 Jan 2014 02:24, "Paul Moore" wrote: >> >> Metadata 2.0 doesn't support versions that are a single number. > > Yes it does - that was one of the compatibility changes I made quite some > time ago. It's also listed as one of the differences rela

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 16 Jan 2014 05:30, "Vinay Sajip" wrote: > > > fair question. partly due to personal comfort level with git/github, but also was > > hoping we'd get more involvement using github, since it's more popular. > > Your choice, of course, and I understand about the personal preference part. I do > won

Re: [Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

2014-01-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 16 Jan 2014 02:24, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > Metadata 2.0 doesn't support versions that are a single number. Yes it does - that was one of the compatibility changes I made quite some time ago. It's also listed as one of the differences relative to PEP 346. The only things preventing me from acc

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Daniel Holth
It's not just part of a joint PSU / PYPA plan to go "full Rackspace"? :-) On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > >>> fair question. partly due to personal comfort level with git/github, but >>> also was >>> hoping we'd get mor

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: >> fair question. partly due to personal comfort level with git/github, but >> also was >> hoping we'd get more involvement using github, since it's more popular. > > Your choice, of course, and I understand about the personal preference part. >

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Vinay Sajip
> fair question. partly due to personal comfort level with git/github, but also > was > hoping we'd get more involvement using github, since it's more popular. Your choice, of course, and I understand about the personal preference part. I do wonder how much involvement you will get from people

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Marcus Smith
fair question. partly due to personal comfort level with git/github, but also was hoping we'd get more involvement using github, since it's more popular. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marcus Smith wrote: > > Fyi, the "Python Pa

[Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Moore
Metadata 2.0 doesn't support versions that are a single number. This has recently been flagged as a pip issue (https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/1445) because pip won't handle wheels with a single-component version. We can obviously accept the patch for pip as a backward-compatibility measure, but

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marcus Smith wrote: > Fyi, the "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved from bitbucket to github. Why the move? ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-si

Re: [Distutils] "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved

2014-01-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 15 Jan 2014 17:15, "Marcus Smith" wrote: > > Fyi, the "Python Packaging User Guide" has moved from bitbucket to github. > > The new project home is here: https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide > and the built site is still here: https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/e