Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-09 Thread Greg Ewing
Paul Moore wrote: FWIW, it looks like file:myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi is how you'd refer to \\myserver\share\WINDOWS\clock.avi. Where did you get that from? According to this it's wrong: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx It should be file://

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 9 August 2014 18:50, Donald Stufft wrote: > Does: file:///c:/WINDOWS/clock.avi work? Never mind, it's my mistake. Reading the docs more closely, "Convert the path component path from a percent-encoded URL to the local syntax for a path. This does not accept a complete URL." (Note that second s

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-09 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Aug 9, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 9 August 2014 17:02, Donald Stufft wrote: >> To be clear, the direct reference is mostly for use in the install_requires. >> On the CLI pip can still just take a path to a file or whatever. This feature >> is intended to replace dependency_

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 9 August 2014 17:02, Donald Stufft wrote: > To be clear, the direct reference is mostly for use in the install_requires. > On the CLI pip can still just take a path to a file or whatever. This feature > is intended to replace dependency_links in a way that people can use > them for private pack

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-09 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Aug 9, 2014, at 4:26 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 8 August 2014 22:53, Donald Stufft wrote: >> Direct references >> = >> >> Some automated tools may permit the use of a direct reference as an >> alternative to a normal version specifier. A direct reference consists of >> t

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Moore
On 8 August 2014 22:53, Donald Stufft wrote: > Direct references > = > > Some automated tools may permit the use of a direct reference as an > alternative to a normal version specifier. A direct reference consists of > the specifier ``@`` and an explicit URL. > > Whether or not dir