Re: [Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Glenn Linderman v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com wrote: (I'm actually not sure if *nix package managers allow multiple repositories or not, but from the way people talk about them, it always sounds like a distribution also provides a repository of additional packages).

Re: [Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 29.10.14 20:34, schrieb Glenn Linderman: New package manager from M$... article here http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-oneget-a-linux-style-package-management-framework. I've looked at it, but only by reading its code, not trying it out. Some notes. First, what is Chocolatey? It's a

Re: [Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Most likely, OneGet won't replace pip/PyPI, any more than apt or yum does; but it may be worth having Python itself available that way. That might simply mean having someone package up Python and put it on an appropriate server, or maybe python.org could end up hosting a repo. Python is

Re: [Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-30 Thread Steve Dower
Most likely, OneGet won't replace pip/PyPI, any more than apt or yum does; but it may be worth having Python itself available that way. That might simply mean having someone package up Python and put it on an appropriate server, or maybe python.org could end up hosting a repo. Python is

Re: [Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-30 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 10/30/2014 7:30 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Most likely, OneGet won't replace pip/PyPI, any more than apt or yum does; but it may be worth having Python itself available that way. That might simply mean having someone package up Python and put it on an appropriate server, or maybe python.org

[Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-29 Thread Glenn Linderman
New package manager from M$... article here http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-oneget-a-linux-style-package-management-framework. It seems doubtful that M$ will eliminate .msi (their obscure, hard to configure and use, installation format), so it seems doubtful that the addition of OneGet

Re: [Python-Dev] Impact of Windows PowerShell OneGet ?

2014-10-29 Thread Donald Stufft
On Oct 29, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Glenn Linderman v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com wrote: New package manager from M$... article here http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-oneget-a-linux-style-package-management-framework. It seems doubtful that M$ will eliminate .msi (their obscure, hard to configure