Mailman 3 April 2001 - Distutils-SIG

Small change to bdist_wininst
by Thomas Heller April 11, 2001

April 11, 2001

The bdist_wininst command creates a windows installer presenting a small GUI to the user. The meta-info from the setup script is displayed in a dialog box, in the following way (this is for distutils itself): +-----------------------------------------------------+ |A collection of modules to aid in the distribution and installation of |Python modules, extensions, and (ultimately) applications. A standard |part of Python 1.6 and 2.0, but also distributed separately for use with |Python 1.5. | | | | Author: Greg Ward | | Author_email: gward(a)python.net | | Description: Python Distribution Utilities | | Licence: Python | | Maintainer: A.M. Kuchling | | Maintainer_email: amk1(a)bigfoot.com | | Name: Distutils | | Url: http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/ | | Version: 1.0.2pre | +-----------------------------------------------------+ The dialog box is not large enough to display the whole text without scrolling, the actual textfield size (at least on my computer) is marked above. I think that the box should be enlarged so that 80 characters are displayed. Should I make this change? Thomas

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Another requested feature (with patch)
by Robert Kern April 9, 2001

April 9, 2001

* add a --skip-build option to the bdist, bdist_dumb, and bdist_wininst commands. This is necessary when trying to build on Windows with mingw32 since the plain bdist_* commands will try to rebuild with MSVCCompiler. I have a patch that seems to work with the dumb formats and Windows installer. I didn't quite grok the bdist_rpm code, so I don't quite know how to work it in there. The patch is attached. I can put it on the Sourceforge Patch Manager if someone likes. -- Robert Kern kern(a)caltech.edu "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter

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Requested feature
by Tony Seward April 7, 2001

April 7, 2001

Better SWIG support would be nice.

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Patch from the previous message
by Robert Kern April 7, 2001

April 7, 2001

Sorry. Here it is. -- Robert Kern kern(a)caltech.edu "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter

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Summary of requested features
by M.-A. Lemburg April 5, 2001

April 5, 2001

Just so that we don't forget, here's the start of a feature request summary: * binary packages should include the Python version in their filename * all distutils packages should include a package release number (like the RPM one) meaning that you can generate new package versions without having to bump the software version number; we could use a new setup() keyword "release" for this [more features to add here] Please complete this list, so that we can add these to the distutils TODO (or even better, since more visible, to a distutils feature request PEP). Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/

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RE: [Distutils] Summary of requested features
by Moore, Paul April 5, 2001

April 5, 2001

From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com] > Just so that we don't forget, here's the start of a feature request > summary: > [more features to add here] > > Please complete this list, so that we can add these to the distutils > TODO (or even better, since more visible, to a distutils feature > request PEP). Add into this * Change default install location for Mac to site-packages (to match what site.py in 2.1 does) [I have no personal interest in Macs, this just seems sensible] * Change default install location on Windows to site-packages (if my PEP on this subject - unnumbered as yet - gets accepted) Paul.

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Catalog Server Prototype Progress
by Amos Latteier April 4, 2001

April 4, 2001

Hi Guys, I just wanted to let folks know that I've made some more progress on my catalog server prototype. http://63.230.174.230:8080/archive Now you can use OpenPGP signatures with source and binary distributions. Also authors can include their pubic keys on their info pages. I've uploaded the lasted version of the server code to the catalog server (hey, it's even signed). I'm getting pretty close to being able to support PEP 243. The missing pieces are detailed in the TODO.txt file. As always, feedback is most welcome! -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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wininst.exe source
by Pete Shinners April 4, 2001

April 4, 2001

where is the source for the WININST.EXE stub executable that is used for bdist_winist? i looked around but did not see it. is it created from some other 'installation tool', or is it simply a compiled program. i was thinking of trying to hack together something with py2exe and a slightly different wininst so i could create compiled/installable executables in one swift step.

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Re: Including an empty directory
by Konrad Hinsen April 3, 2001

April 3, 2001

> Hmm... looks like you can't. If a file fails an os.path.isfile() > check, sdist.py skips it and prints a warning. That's probably worth > loosening. Creating directories makes sense, but I don't think we > need to support symlinks or more exotic file types such as pipes. Here are the necessary patches from my setup.py: from distutils.core import setup, Extension from distutils.command.sdist import sdist from distutils import dir_util from distutils.filelist import FileList, translate_pattern class ModifiedFileList(FileList): def findall(self, dir=os.curdir): from stat import ST_MODE, S_ISREG, S_ISDIR, S_ISLNK list = [] stack = [dir] pop = stack.pop push = stack.append while stack: dir = pop() names = os.listdir(dir) for name in names: if dir != os.curdir: # avoid the dreaded "./" syndrome fullname = os.path.join(dir, name) else: fullname = name stat = os.stat(fullname) mode = stat[ST_MODE] if S_ISREG(mode): list.append(fullname) elif S_ISDIR(mode) and not S_ISLNK(mode): list.append(fullname) push(fullname) self.allfiles = list class modified_sdist(sdist): def run (self): self.filelist = ModifiedFileList() self.check_metadata() self.get_file_list() if self.manifest_only: return self.make_distribution() def make_release_tree (self, base_dir, files): self.mkpath(base_dir) dir_util.create_tree(base_dir, files, verbose=self.verbose, dry_run=self.dry_run) if hasattr(os, 'link'): # can make hard links on this system link = 'hard' msg = "making hard links in %s..." % base_dir else: # nope, have to copy link = None msg = "copying files to %s..." % base_dir if not files: self.warn("no files to distribute -- empty manifest?") else: self.announce(msg) for file in files: if os.path.isfile(file): dest = os.path.join(base_dir, file) self.copy_file(file, dest, link=link) elif os.path.isdir(file): dir_util.mkpath(os.path.join(base_dir, file)) else: self.warn("'%s' not a regular file or directory -- skipping" % file) setup(... cmdclass = {'sdist': modified_sdist}) I am not too happy with this kind of patching, as I rely quite a bit on undocumented internals of Distutils, which might change in future versions. But for the moment I seem to have no other choice. Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen(a)cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.56.24 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Excluding files
by Konrad Hinsen April 3, 2001

April 3, 2001

> >directories from a recursive search. But how can I exclude a single > >file from an include? I need this to keep modules under development > >out of the public releases. > > Does 'exclude' do what you want? ('exclude dodgymodule.*', for example...) Ehhh.... Yes, it does. It would be nice if this were mentioned in the manual... Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen(a)cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.56.24 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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