Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 426 is now the draft spec fordistribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-19 Thread a.cavallo
> I've never seen environment markers being used or supported > in the wild. > > I'm not against modernizing the format, but given that version 1.2 > has been out for around 8 years now, without much following, > I think we need to make the implementation bit a requirement > before accepting the P

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): - Issue #17086: Backport thepatches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build

2013-02-07 Thread a.cavallo
> (btw, nothing to do with this discussion, Nick, but it appears your > RHEL buildbot is offline) > > Regards Btw rpm build and packaging can be done on the suse build service: it is a very complete (and free) service. https://build.opensuse.org ___

Re: [Python-Dev] PandaBoard, Raspberry Pi coming to Buildbot fleet

2012-12-20 Thread a.cavallo
How about folding them??? I did it, now I don't need a power supply anymore :O On Thu 20/12/12 19:52, Trent Nelson tr...@snakebite.org wrote: > No problemo'. If only all the other Snakebite servers could fit in > my palm and run off 0.25A. ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] accept the wheel PEPs425, 426, 427

2012-11-14 Thread a.cavallo
Mmmm, interesting point and worth a discussion about different roles (developer, system admin, final user etc.) having different needs. I believe distutils is used as tool primarily (setup.py bdist_rpm/msi to create installable objects, setup.py bdist_sdist to manage the source code etc.): this

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] accept the wheel PEPs425, 426, 427

2012-11-13 Thread a.cavallo
I'll give you that number(?) but ... mercurial, docutils, jinjia2 pygments, sphinx, lxml, nose, cherrypy, django, pyqt ... all they don't need/use setuptools: that 25% left is quite an interesting field to play in. If setuptools was "significant packaging innovation" do you think people wouldn

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] accept the wheel PEPs425, 426, 427

2012-11-13 Thread a.cavallo
+1 Distutils is good enough: it could be better but for what is required (essentially copying files and creating packages installers) is fine. The only corner case is an absolute pain in the neck is in the cross compile scenario. Currently I don't have *any* need for "auto" tools (setuptools and