Re: HEADS UP: Slightly more robust Python Requires generated by RPM

2021-10-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/29/21 05:49, Miro Hrončok wrote: For some of them (e.g. mako), this seems to be a mistake even. There are a lot of "dev0" versions in that set, so I took a look for the cause.  It looks like all of the "dev0" packages use github source rather than PyPI sources, which means that none of

Re: HEADS UP: Slightly more robust Python Requires generated by RPM

2021-10-30 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 30.10.21 um 21:42 schrieb Gordon Messmer: I'd suggest that we should instead strongly encourage the use of PyPI URLs. I agree that pypi downloads are usually preferable. However I had to use github tarballs sometimes as upstream did not ship the test suite for pypi tarballs... Just my 2

Re: HEADS UP: Slightly more robust Python Requires generated by RPM

2021-10-30 Thread Ben Beasley
Almost all of the Python packages I maintain have something useful in the GitHub archive that isn’t in the PyPI archive. I find that PyPI source distributions commonly lack test suites and usually lack documentation. I choose PyPI sources where all else is equal, but in a lot of cases using GitH

Re: HEADS UP: Slightly more robust Python Requires generated by RPM

2021-10-30 Thread Ian McInerney
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 8:42 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/29/21 05:49, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > For some of them (e.g. mako), this seems to be a mistake even. > > > There are a lot of "dev0" versions in that set, so I took a look for the > cause. It looks like all of the "dev0" packages use g

Re: HEADS UP: Slightly more robust Python Requires generated by RPM

2021-10-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/30/21 13:12, Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 30.10.21 um 21:42 schrieb Gordon Messmer: I'd suggest that we should instead strongly encourage the use of PyPI URLs. I agree that pypi downloads are usually preferable. However I had to use github tarballs sometimes as upstream did not ship the test

Re: HEADS UP: Slightly more robust Python Requires generated by RPM

2021-10-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/30/21 13:57, Ian McInerney wrote: I disagree. PyPI is basically a packaging environment, so using the tarballs from there would mean we are then subject to the curation decisions by the people who package the