Re: improving pypi / setuptools

2005-11-30 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Alia Khouri wrote: What ideas do people out there have for making the installation of python module more reliable? judging from the support load it's causing me these days, setuptools is a piece of utter crap. if you want to make things reliable, don't use it. (if the various rails cloners

Re: improving pypi / setuptools

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:49:14AM +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Alia Khouri wrote: What ideas do people out there have for making the installation of python module more reliable? judging from the support load it's causing me these days, setuptools is a piece of utter crap. if you want

Re: improving pypi / setuptools

2005-11-30 Thread Alia Khouri
It is still early days for setuptools... still, we are lagging behind the ruby world in this regards. I definitely agree with you that the so-called megaframeworks need to be packaged better (especially all versions of the different components being updated on almost daily basis). AK --

improving pypi / setuptools

2005-11-29 Thread Alia Khouri
Due to a recent site overhaul by sourceforge certain files linked to from pypi won't install. For example, in trying to install all the dependencies for the subway web framework, I got this kind of error: snip . . . Searching for CherryPy=2.1.0-rc1 Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/CherryPy/