Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 17 December 2016 at 06:40, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > On Dec 16, 2016, at 5:51 AM, Daniel Holth wrote: > > One possibility to consider is that virtualenv itself is a bad idea. Why > should the Python interpreter executable, rather than the program being > run, determine the set of packages that

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Greg Ewing
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: "New Project" could just create a requirements.txt and a setup.py for you, alongside a git repo and a virtualenv for that project. Or, the UI could be geared towards setting up a tox.ini rather than a virtualenv, and run everything through tox so it's in an isolated e

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Daniel Holth
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 3:40 PM Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > On Dec 16, 2016, at 5:51 AM, Daniel Holth wrote: > > I'm also a visual studio code fan. It is the first editor I've tried that > feels lightweight like Vim but has the power of many plugins. That, and the > text rendering is excellent. > >

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
> On Dec 16, 2016, at 5:07 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 16 December 2016 at 20:57, Glyph Lefkowitz > wrote: > > Anyhow, Xcode is far from perfect - many of the places it touches the UNIX > pipeline are extremely sharp edges you can easily impale yourself on (

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
> On Dec 16, 2016, at 5:51 AM, Daniel Holth wrote: > > I'm also a visual studio code fan. It is the first editor I've tried that > feels lightweight like Vim but has the power of many plugins. That, and the > text rendering is excellent. > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Stallion

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Brett Cannon
If people are serious about trying to prototype this stuff then the easiest way might be coming up with shell scripts that do the prompting if it's faster to iterate that way than doing a full-blown GUI. Now that WIndows 10 has WSL/Bash it means for the first time all 3 major OSs have a common she

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Steve Dower
"Alternatively, I've recently started using Visual Studio Code as my editor for work ..." FWIW, the long-term Python story in VSCode is currently (largely) one of my responsibilities, and that bootstrapping flow is exactly one of the pieces I really want to put in. Unfortunately, nobody has let

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Daniel Holth
I'm also a visual studio code fan. It is the first editor I've tried that feels lightweight like Vim but has the power of many plugins. That, and the text rendering is excellent. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Stallion is a lovely GUI package manager. One possibility to consider is that virtualenv

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 16 December 2016 at 20:57, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > Anyhow, Xcode is far from perfect - many of the places it touches the UNIX > pipeline are extremely sharp edges you can easily impale yourself on (and > don't get me started about codesigning) - but it nevertheless points at a > different p

Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

2016-12-16 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
> On Dec 15, 2016, at 9:23 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 16 December 2016 at 14:29, Glyph Lefkowitz > wrote: >> On Dec 15, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Nick Coghlan > > wrote: > > At the beginning of your story you mentioned the GUI client - tha