Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

2015-09-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 September 2015 at 14:11, Marcus Smith wrote: > > >> > That way, the URL works as people expect, *and* the resulting >> > destination gives a URL that (when inevitably copy-and-pasted) will >> > retain its meaning over time. >> >> Yes, ReadTheDocs does let us do that. > > > well, it lets you d

Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

2015-09-06 Thread Marcus Smith
> That way, the URL works as people expect, *and* the resulting > > destination gives a URL that (when inevitably copy-and-pasted) will > > retain its meaning over time. > > Yes, ReadTheDocs does let us do that. well, it lets you do it for a whole project. we'd have to have a project per spec for

Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

2015-09-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 September 2015 at 09:42, Ben Finney wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > >> On 7 September 2015 at 02:09, Marcus Smith wrote: >> > For example, down the road when there's Wheel 2.0, what's the "Current >> > Specs" for wheel? >> >> Yes, but I think that's easy enough to handle by having a default

Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

2015-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
Nick Coghlan writes: > On 7 September 2015 at 02:09, Marcus Smith wrote: > > For example, down the road when there's Wheel 2.0, what's the "Current > > Specs" for wheel? > > Yes, but I think that's easy enough to handle by having a default URL > that always goes to the latest version of the spec

Re: [Distutils] BDFL Delegates for distutils-sig PEPs

2015-09-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 September 2015 at 01:43, Marcus Smith wrote: > ok, so this is PEP 474 > where's the activity for the forge idea happening? python-dev list? While the final discussions will need to move to python-dev, the preliminary discussions are taking place on the core-workflow mailing list: https

Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

2015-09-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 September 2015 at 02:09, Marcus Smith wrote: > One thought that comes to mind is how to present specs that deal with > formats and artifacts that persist for years. > > For example, down the road when there's Wheel 2.0, what's the "Current > Specs" for wheel? > > I would describe 2.0 is the "

Re: [Distutils] ensurepip in linux distros

2015-09-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 September 2015 at 01:37, Marcus Smith wrote: >> >> then bundles the system >> version back up with rewheel for installation into Python virtual >> environments. > > > this "bundles the system version back up" step happens when? When ensurepip.bootstrap() runs - Fedora's system Python is patc

Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

2015-09-06 Thread Marcus Smith
One thought that comes to mind is how to present specs that deal with formats and artifacts that persist for years. For example, down the road when there's Wheel 2.0, what's the "Current Specs" for wheel? I would describe 2.0 is the "Latest" spec, but "Current Specs" includes all versions we're a

Re: [Distutils] BDFL Delegates for distutils-sig PEPs

2015-09-06 Thread Marcus Smith
ok, so this is PEP 474 where's the activity for the forge idea happening? python-dev list? On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 6 Sep 2015 10:39, "Marcus Smith" wrote: > > > > yea, I like the idea of our own authoritative Pypa project for > proposals, and maybe have

Re: [Distutils] ensurepip in linux distros

2015-09-06 Thread Marcus Smith
> > > then bundles the system > version back up with rewheel for installation into Python virtual > environments. this "bundles the system version back up" step happens when? which fedora version did this start? ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-