[Distutils] [issue158] Python not recognized in registry, PATH not modified

2014-03-02 Thread mrx23dot
New submission from mrx23dot: setuptools Windows installer doesn't look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: only looks in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER for Python: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.7] (problem on Win7 x64 Python 2.7 installed for All users) Also it doesn't add Python\Scripts to PATH.

Re: [Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-02 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 2 March 2014 07:25, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I've just posted updated versions of PEP 426 and 459 that defer the metadata hooks feature. The design and behaviour of that extension is still way too speculative for me to approve in its current form, but I also don't want to

Re: [Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 Mar 2014 04:34, Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 07:25, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I've just posted updated versions of PEP 426 and 459 that defer the metadata hooks feature. The design and behaviour of that extension is still way too

Re: [Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-02 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 2 March 2014 21:05, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I think this approach may also encourage a design where projects do something sensible *by default* (e.g. NumPy defaulting to SSE2) and then use the (not yet defined) post-installation hooks to potentially *change away* from

Re: [Distutils] Remaining tasks before metadata 2.0 can be accepted (was Re: The PEP 426 defined metadata version will be metadata 3.0)

2014-03-02 Thread Marcus Smith
A required preliminary task is to create a revision of PEP 425 that expands its scope to also handle the parts of the file/directory naming scheme that are common across sdist, wheel and the installation database (with compatibility tags becoming a subsection) can you elaborate a bit.

Re: [Distutils] Remaining tasks before metadata 2.0 can be accepted (was Re: The PEP 426 defined metadata version will be metadata 3.0)

2014-03-02 Thread Marcus Smith
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 February 2014 10:46, Marcus Smith qwc...@gmail.com wrote: that would be good. If you did, I would link to the tasks from the PUG future page. OK, these are the things I consider blockers for an accepted metadata

Re: [Distutils] Remaining tasks before metadata 2.0 can be accepted (was Re: The PEP 426 defined metadata version will be metadata 3.0)

2014-03-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 March 2014 16:12, Marcus Smith qwc...@gmail.com wrote: A required preliminary task is to create a revision of PEP 425 that expands its scope to also handle the parts of the file/directory naming scheme that are common across sdist, wheel and the installation database (with compatibility