Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-11 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/10 John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com: Not to slash turpentine on an already painted bikeshed, but since the project's aim is to be a module distribution manager for Python, I like the name modisty (*mod*ule *dist*ribution manager for P*y*thon). Ick. But mopy- is actually a good prefix.

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-10 Thread John Gabriele
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Sorry I won't run a new poll again, Distribute is the name. Besides, it's already on page #1 on google when I type 'python disribute' or 'distribute python' *shrugs* I will state now that I

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like distribute2 You could even take the opportunity to rename it completely to something that makes sense ;-) To re-iterate my argument: Distribute doesn't distribute anything. If anything was to be called Distribute, it'd be the

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like distribute2 You could even take the opportunity to rename it completely to something that makes sense ;-) To re-iterate my argument: Distribute doesn't

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Grönholm
Chris Withers kirjoitti: Tarek Ziadé wrote: 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like distribute2 You could even take the opportunity to rename it completely to something that makes sense ;-) While I agree that the name was badly chosen (for reasons you outline below), a name change at

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: Sorry I won't run a new poll again, Distribute is the name. Besides, it's already on page #1 on google when I type 'python disribute' or 'distribute python' *shrugs* I will state now that I will fight tooth and nail before anything called distribute gets into the stdlib

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Sorry I won't run a new poll again, Distribute is the name. Besides, it's already on page #1 on google when I type 'python disribute' or 'distribute python' *shrugs* I will state now that I

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-09 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-10-09 00:27:41 Tarek Ziadé napisał(a): On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2009-10-04 23:52:25 Sridhar Ratnakumar napisał(a): On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-08 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-10-04 23:52:25 Sridhar Ratnakumar napisał(a): On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for what the packaging system is calling setuptools. That's pretty much what is happening in

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-08 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2009-10-04 23:52:25 Sridhar Ratnakumar napisał(a): On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2009-10-04 23:52:25 Sridhar Ratnakumar napisał(a): On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: We are not sure yet, but when 0.7 will be ready we have two choices: 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like distribute2 2- we ship a fat 0.7 with the old 0.6 packages and modules included. I think 1- is better,

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-05 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for what the packaging system is calling setuptools. That's pretty much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux (dev),

[Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-04 Thread Akira Kitada
Hi, I'm planning to make a port for Distribute to make it more accessible to users. However, thinking about up coming 0.7 release, which will break the compatibility with setuptools, I started wondering it's not so easy to make a package for distribute. If I understand correctly, Distutils 0.7

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-04 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Akira Kitada akit...@macports.org wrote: I'm planning to make a port for Distribute to make it more accessible to users. That's very much appreciated :) For Distribute, there would be a few options to work around this: 1) Make 0.6 and 0.7 different package,

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-04 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Hanno Schlichting ha...@hannosch.eu wrote: For Distribute, there would be a few options to work around this: 1) Make 0.6 and 0.7 different package, like Distribute and Distribute2 (Jinja like solution) 2) Make 0.7 fat package, which includes 0.6(setuptools

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-04 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for what the packaging system is calling setuptools. That's pretty much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux (dev), right now Interesting.

Re: [Distutils] Packaging Distribute

2009-10-04 Thread kiorky
Sridhar Ratnakumar a écrit : On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for what the packaging system is calling setuptools. That's pretty much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux