tarball vs. download URL

2009-04-06 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While we're on the topic of packaging, I have one more request: Please upload the software (the tarball) to PyPI instead of using the Sourceforge URL as download URL. While setuptools itself can (at least most of the time) interact with SourceForg

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 6, 2009, at 16:21 , Michael Ströder wrote: > Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >> For the customers' needs it's perfectly fine to just go with an older >> version of python- ldap. > > As long as there aren't any security holes in older versions of > pytho

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Ströder
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:55 , Michael Ströder wrote: >> Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >>> On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:10 , Michael Ströder wrote: >>> > It's not always wise to go with the latest. At the moment it is (within the 2.3 series). >>> Unfortunately that's not true. I've be

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 P.S.: To avoid any confusion, I'm not arguing for official support for old versions. Just an easy way (like PyPI) to get hold of them. SourceForge is, in my very personal opinion, garbage. You never know which mirror holds what. You never know if

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:55 , Michael Ströder wrote: > Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >> >> On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:10 , Michael Ströder wrote: >> It's not always wise to go with the latest. >>> At the moment it is (within the 2.3 series). >> >> Unfortunately

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Ströder
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:10 , Michael Ströder wrote: > >>> It's not always wise to go with the latest. >> At the moment it is (within the 2.3 series). > > Unfortunately that's not true. I've ben in many situations where I > really needed older versions (like 2.0.8 or 2.1

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:10 , Michael Ströder wrote: >> It's not always wise to go with the latest. > > At the moment it is (within the 2.3 series). Unfortunately that's not true. I've ben in many situations where I really needed older versions (lik

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Ströder
Roland Hedberg wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:37, Michael Ströder wrote: > >> Roland Hedberg wrote: >>> One problem I've already found is that there doesn't seem to exist a >>> simple stable FTP/HTTP URL that points to the latest distribution. >> >> Do you need a URL which is always the same but

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Roland Hedberg
On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:37, Michael Ströder wrote: > Roland Hedberg wrote: >> One problem I've already found is that there doesn't seem to exist a >> simple stable FTP/HTTP URL that points to the latest distribution. > > Do you need a URL which is always the same but points to the latest > tar.gz fi

Re: Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Ströder
Roland Hedberg wrote: > One problem I've already found is that there doesn't seem to exist a > simple stable FTP/HTTP URL that points to the latest distribution. Do you need a URL which is always the same but points to the latest tar.gz file? Ciao, Michael.

Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

2009-04-06 Thread Roland Hedberg
Hi! My goal: to 'bundle' pyton-ldap as part of a service distribution. The necessary software for this distribution is a among other a set of Python packages like python-ldap, Twisted and rdflib and a a couple of packages I've developed in python myself, but to get the full service function