Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-20 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:54 PM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over maintenance of setuptools, and I welcome

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-20 Thread PJ Eby
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Erik Bray erik.m.b...@gmail.com wrote: Quick question regarding open issues on Distribute (of which I have a handful assigned to me, and of which I intend to tackle a few others): Would it it make sense to just hold off on those until the merge is completed?

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-19 Thread PJ Eby
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Adam GROSZER agroszer...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like running python.exe setup.py test is the right command to run the tests, isn't it? It certainly should be. As I said, I'm not familiar with the distribute side, so maybe Jason or somebody else can lend a hand

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-15 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On 3/14/13 9:49 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Congrats, This is a good move for packaging. I am very glad the merge is happening, knowing that it's now managed by a community of contributors. Cheers Tarek Oh btw, I was told Philip was saying in private he was agreeing to do the merge as long as I

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com wrote: As PJE mentioned in his e-mail, he and I have been working on a merge of the code lines of Setuptools and Distribute. I'm excited about this transition and I hope you are too. Yay, thank you both for working hard to make

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Vinay Sajip
Carl Meyer carl at oddbird.net writes: On 03/13/2013 06:54 PM, PJ Eby wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base.  He has volunteered to take over maintenance of

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Adam GROSZER
Hello, On 03/14/2013 01:57 AM, Jason R. Coombs wrote: As PJE mentioned in his e-mail, he and I have been working on a merge of the code lines of Setuptools and Distribute. I'm excited about this transition and I hope you are too. I think I can offer you some help, by providing some windows

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Moore
On 14 March 2013 00:54, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. Absolutely fantastic news!!! Thanks to both Jason and PJE for making this happen.

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Jim Fulton
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:54 PM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over maintenance of setuptools, and I welcome

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Jim Fulton
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: On 03/13/2013 06:54 PM, PJ Eby wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Nasrat
This is great news from the pip/virtualenv front. Thanks to both you for setuptools and the distribute contributors for all your work so far. Paul On 13 March 2013 20:54, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread PJ Eby
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Adam GROSZER agroszer...@gmail.com wrote: I think I can offer you some help, by providing some windows support in the means of testing with various python versions and building binary packages/installers. Note, current tests are failing...

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Congrats, This is a good move for packaging. I am very glad the merge is happening, knowing that it's now managed by a community of contributors. Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé · http://ziade.org · @tarek_ziade ___ Distutils-SIG maillist -

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-14 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the announcment, and especially thanks to all those who have worked on setuptools and distribute. Particular thanks to PJE for having both devised the thing and worked out how to get the community to adopt it. I'm looking forward to the

[Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-13 Thread PJ Eby
Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over maintenance of setuptools, and I welcome his assistance. I appreciate the contributions made by the distribute

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-13 Thread Marcus Smith
woo hoo!!! awesome!!! Marcus On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over

[Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-13 Thread Jason R. Coombs
As PJE mentioned in his e-mail, he and I have been working on a merge of the code lines of Setuptools and Distribute. I'm excited about this transition and I hope you are too. In this message, I will provide some answers based on questions that he and I encountered in our discussions and

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-13 Thread Ross Patterson
Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com writes: Who is invited to contribute? Who is excluded? As long as the merged project, whatever it's called, doesn't become as closed of to community contributions or input as led to the fork in the first place, a merge seems like a great idea. Personally, if I

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-13 Thread Daniel Holth
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Ross Patterson m...@rpatterson.net wrote: Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com writes: Who is invited to contribute? Who is excluded? As long as the merged project, whatever it's called, doesn't become as closed of to community contributions or input as led to

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

2013-03-13 Thread Carl Meyer
On 03/13/2013 06:54 PM, PJ Eby wrote: Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over maintenance of setuptools, and I welcome his assistance. This merge is