Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-04 Thread Ionel Cristian Mărieș
Wouldn't this be a good time to discuss other types of URLs? Eg: * Documentation * CI status (in the many different flavors) * Issue tracker * Forum/mailing list * Support place After all, there's nothing special about docker images - every project is going to have a different special thing at s

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Moore
On 3 February 2015 at 11:08, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Microsoft actually support Linux containers on Azure and are working with > Docker to support Windows containers on Windows. Everybody gets containers! > :) Cool, can't wait :-) At the moment, the Docker install for Windows includes VirtualBox an

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 Feb 2015 19:10, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > On 1 February 2015 at 03:54, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > I agree that from an implementation perspective, this could just be a > > new recommended URL in the project URLs metadata (e.g. "Reference > > Container Images"). If folks don't think the idea sound

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Moore
On 1 February 2015 at 03:54, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I agree that from an implementation perspective, this could just be a > new recommended URL in the project URLs metadata (e.g. "Reference > Container Images"). If folks don't think the idea sounds horrible, > I'll make that update to the PEP 459 d

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 Feb 2015 18:36, "Ionel Cristian Mărieș" wrote: > > Wouldn't this be a good time to discuss other types of URLs? > > Eg: > > * Documentation > * CI status (in the many different flavors) > * Issue tracker > * Forum/mailing list > * Support place > > After all, there's nothing special about doc

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 February 2015 at 16:01, Marcus Smith wrote: > >> As a possible interim approach to improving the situation, what do you >> think of my writing up a "Binary distribution for Linux" advanced >> topic? That could cover not only containers, but also the technique of >> "bundle a /opt virtualenv i

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-02 Thread Marcus Smith
> As a possible interim approach to improving the situation, what do you > think of my writing up a "Binary distribution for Linux" advanced > topic? That could cover not only containers, but also the technique of > "bundle a /opt virtualenv in a platform binary package" as well as > actually creat

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 2 February 2015 at 03:04, Marcus Smith wrote: > >> I agree that from an implementation perspective, this could just be a >> new recommended URL in the project URLs metadata (e.g. "Reference >> Container Images"). If folks don't think the idea sounds horrible, >> I'll make that update to the PEP

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-02-01 Thread Marcus Smith
> I agree that from an implementation perspective, this could just be a > new recommended URL in the project URLs metadata (e.g. "Reference > Container Images"). If folks don't think the idea sounds horrible, > I'll make that update to the PEP 459 draft. > wouldn't this just be a use case for a cu

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-01-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 1 February 2015 at 11:01, Donald Stufft wrote: > Do you expect some automated tool to take advantage of this link? > > In other words, what’s the benefit over just having a link to the docker > container in the long_description or in the metadata 2.0 project urls? I agree that from an implemen

Re: [Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-01-31 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Jan 31, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > One of the recurring problems folks mention here is how to deal with > the complexities of handling Linux ABI compatibility issues. > > That's a genuinely hard problem, and not one that *anyone* has solved > well - it's one of the reasons b

[Distutils] Idea: allow PyPI projects to link to DockerHub container images

2015-01-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
One of the recurring problems folks mention here is how to deal with the complexities of handling Linux ABI compatibility issues. That's a genuinely hard problem, and not one that *anyone* has solved well - it's one of the reasons being an independent software vendor for Linux in general (rather t