On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >> Do the Linux distros use pip to build their packages?
> >
> > Not that I am aware of.
>
> Fedora's build macros for Python projects currently rely on running
> setup.py directly, but we've been considering switching to pip instead
> since 2
+1
2017-09-05 3:21 GMT-05:00 Paul Moore :
> On 5 September 2017 at 09:00, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> > I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should
> > not try to deal with it for now:
> >
> > - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to
> > construct p
On 5 September 2017 at 01:36, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
>> - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C
>> locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8.
>
> Only in 3.7, I think? Or do you mean, backends should
>
> On Sep 5, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
> Does pip in fact use /tmp for temporary directories? (It's not always
> the right choice, because /tmp has limited space on some systems, e.g.
> b/c it's on a ramdisk. If we still had build_directory= then this
> could be an issue, since
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should
> not try to deal with it for now:
>
> - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to
> construct paths of entirely ascii characters.
Does pip in fact u
On 5 September 2017 at 09:00, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should
> not try to deal with it for now:
>
> - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to
> construct paths of entirely ascii characters.
> - Frontends that wa
I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should
not try to deal with it for now:
- Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to
construct paths of entirely ascii characters.
- Frontends that want the wheel to end up elsewhere can ask for it in a
tmp directo
A bare redirect would also be fine. It's a shame setup.py classifiers /
metadata does not have a "documentation" field otherwise
pythonhosted.org/{project_name} could have automatically redirected to the
project doc.
Perhaps https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=pkg_edit&name={project_name}
could pr