Re: [Distutils] Current Python packaging status (from my point of view)

2016-11-04 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 4 November 2016 at 03:56, Matthew Brett wrote: >> But - it would be a huge help if the PSF could help with funding to >> get mingw-w64 working. This is the crucial blocker for progress on >> binary wheels on Windows. > > Such a grant was

Re: [Distutils] Current Python packaging status (from my point of view)

2016-11-04 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 4 November 2016 at 03:56, Matthew Brett wrote: >> But - it would be a huge help if the PSF could help with funding to >> get mingw-w64 working. This is the crucial blocker for progress on >> binary wheels on Windows. > > Such a grant

Re: [Distutils] Current Python packaging status (from my point of view)

2016-11-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 4 November 2016 at 03:56, Matthew Brett wrote: > But - it would be a huge help if the PSF could help with funding to > get mingw-w64 working. This is the crucial blocker for progress on > binary wheels on Windows. Such a grant was already awarded earlier this year by way of the Scientific Pyt

Re: [Distutils] continuous integration options (was Re: Travis-CI is not open source, except in fact it *is* open source)

2016-11-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 4 November 2016 at 06:07, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > I think we're drifting pretty far off topic here... IIRC the original > discussion was about whether the travis-ci infrastructure could be suborned > to provide an sdist->wheel autobuilding service for pypi. (Answer: maybe, > though it would be

Re: [Distutils] Current Python packaging status (from my point of view)

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Barker
Final note after a long thread: Just like Nick pointed out in his original post (if I read it right) , the pip vs the conda approach comes down to this: Do you want to a system to manage the whole stack? or do you want a system to manage Python packages? Personally, I think that no matter how