[Distutils] Re: Notes from python core sprint on workflow tooling

2018-09-30 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 2:17 PM Tzu-ping Chung wrote: > I can’t speak for others (also not really sure what “we” should include > here…), but I > have a couple of interactions with the author on Twitter. I can’t recall > whether I invited > him to join distutils-sig specifically, but I would unde

[Distutils] Re: Notes from python core sprint on workflow tooling

2018-09-30 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 6:48 AM Nathaniel Smith wrote: > So I think now might be a time for a bit of top-down design. **I want > a picture of the elephant.** If we had that, maybe we could see how > all these different ideas could be put together into a coherent whole. > So at the Python core spr

[Distutils] Re: Make an ordered list of sdists to be installed?

2018-07-23 Thread Nicholas Chammas
I don’t know the details, but I did read that Poetry has a sophisticated dependency resolver. https://github.com/sdispater/poetry I don’t know if there is a way to access the resolver independently of the tool, but perhaps it would provide a handy reference. 2018년 7월 23일 (월) 오전 5:49, Thomas Kluyv

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

2016-07-28 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io <http://mailto:don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Nicholas Chammas > wrote: > > I know a more concrete proposal would have to address a lot of details > (e.g. like how to split contribu

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

2016-07-23 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM Daniel Holth wrote: > Have you seen https://rubytogether.org ? It looks like exactly what you > are proposing, only with more blocks. > Interesting. I hadn't heard of that before now. I'm not sure what you mean by "with more blocks", but that idea seems focused o

Re: [Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

2016-07-23 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:22 PM Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Jul 23, 2016 11:40 AM, "Nicholas Chammas" > wrote: > > > [...] > > > > You can already do this today, of course, with services like PayPal, > Gratipay, and Salt. But the process is scattered and

[Distutils] Contributing money to package authors/maintainers via PyPI

2016-07-23 Thread Nicholas Chammas
This may be a heretical idea, and it’s definitely not something anyone is likely to take on anytime soon, but I’d like to put it up for discussion and see what people think. I often find myself wanting to show gratitude to the authors or maintainers of a package by giving money. Most of the time,

Re: [Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

2016-05-11 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:15 AM Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: > > On May 10, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou > wrote: > > > > (as an aside, if there's the question of forking an existing parser > > implementation for better vendorability, forking a YAM

Re: [Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

2016-05-08 Thread Nicholas Chammas
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:23 AM Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: - YAML ought to be wonderful, but it ended up over-engineered (yes, we > can ignore the bits we don't care about). Also, pyYAML is a bit of an > annoying dependency (big, reportedly slow unless

Re: [Distutils] How to deprecate a python package

2016-04-06 Thread Nicholas Chammas
FYI, there is an existing issue on Warehouse's tracker for this: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/345 ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

[Distutils] Thank you for the ability to do `pip install git+https://...`

2016-03-28 Thread Nicholas Chammas
Dunno how old/new this feature is, or what people did before it existed, but I just wanted to thank the people who thought of and built the ability to do installs from git+https. It lets me offer the following to my users when they want the “bleeding edge”