On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. How about if I change mount()/unmount() to:
def mount(self, append=False, destdir=None):
Unzip the wheel's contents to the specified directory, or to
a temporary
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
No, mutating sys.path for versioned imports is a broken design. You
end up with two possibilities:
* If you append, then you can't override modules that have a default
version available on sys.path. This is not an
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:42 AM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
No, mutating sys.path for versioned imports is a broken design. You
end up with two possibilities:
* If you append, then you can't override modules
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:42 AM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
No, mutating sys.path for versioned imports is a broken design. You
end up with
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:52 AM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't lose the place where you want the inserts to happen. Without
the marker, you end up having to come up with a heuristic for make
insertions
Jim Fulton jim at zope.com writes:
It would be far better IMO to just unzip the wheel and put that in
your path. (I'm hoping that wheels used this way are a suitable
replacement for eggs.)
Well that's tantamount to installing the wheel,
Not really. If you just unzip the wheel and
On 28 March 2013 16:02, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Return this directory. Note that the caller is responsible for
deleting this directory and its contents, which might not be
possible - e.g. in Windows, if a shared library has been
imported and is linked
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Jim Fulton jim at zope.com writes:
It would be far better IMO to just unzip the wheel and put that in
your path. (I'm hoping that wheels used this way are a suitable
replacement for eggs.)
Well that's
Am 28.03.2013 17:42, schrieb Paul Moore:
On 28 March 2013 16:02, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Return this directory. Note that the caller is responsible for
deleting this directory and its contents, which might not be
possible - e.g. in Windows, if a shared
Jim Fulton jim at zope.com writes:
So the win for buildout and it's users is to be able to have extracted
(but not installed wheels) around to be mixed and matched either for
script generation or run-time use.
If I wasn't using buildout, I kinda doubt I'd want to use something
like this
I'm not top-posting, but trying to keep GMane happy ...
Since wheels are .zip files, they can sometimes be used to provide
functionality without needing to be installed. Whereas .zip files contain no
convention for indicating compatibility with a particular Python, wheels do
contain this
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I'm not top-posting, but trying to keep GMane happy ...
Since wheels are .zip files, they can sometimes be used to provide
functionality without needing to be installed. Whereas .zip files contain no
convention for
Jim Fulton jim at zope.com writes:
It's a trap!
At least on Unix systems:
- Extensions in zip files that get magically extracted to a user's
home directory lead to tragic deployment failures for services that
run as special users.
I can see how it would lead to problems, but the
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Jim Fulton jim at zope.com writes:
It's a trap!
At least on Unix systems:
- Extensions in zip files that get magically extracted to a user's
home directory lead to tragic deployment failures for services that
Jim Fulton j...@zope.com writes:
Anywhere you extract them is likely going to lead to access control
or security issues and generally cause pain, IMO.
right! search the web for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE.
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On 27 March 2013 21:06, Jim Fulton j...@zope.com wrote:
- AFAIK eggs allow you to import extensions
from zip in a similar fashion.
Importing from zipped eggs has proved itself to be an
anti pattern.
I don't like the idea of making wheels work like eggs in this respect.
As Jim said, (zipped)
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