Mailman 3 April 2009 - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] Deprecate MANIFEST.in
by P.J. Eby April 6, 2009

April 6, 2009

At 01:53 AM 4/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >2009/4/6 P.J. Eby <pje(a)telecommunity.com>: > > At 06:45 PM 4/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > >> > >> Hello > >> > >> After some discussions with people at Pycon, we think that the > >> MANIFEST template should be removed. > >> > >> I would like to deprecate MANIFEST.in in Distutils, in favor of a > >> package_data that can match directories with a glob-style pattern > >> see : http://bugs.python.org/issue5302 > > > > What about documentation files, data files, examples, and tests -- all of > > which might need to be included in an sdist, but would not be "package > > data"? > >that would be data_files, but I am wondering if we should have an explicit >one for documentation files. I mean, *non-installed* documentation, data, examples, and tests -- *none* of which would be currently listed in data_files.

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unicode bug in distutils
by Tarek Ziadé April 5, 2009

April 5, 2009

Hello, I have created a setup.py file for distirbution and I bumped into a small bug when i tried to set my name in the contact field (Tarek Ziadé) Using string (utf8 file): setup( maintainer="Tarek Ziadé" ) leads to: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/command/register.py", line 162, in send_metadata auth) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/command/register.py", line 257, in post_to_server value = unicode(value).encode("utf-8") UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) Using unicode: setup( maintainer=u"Tarek Ziadé" ) leads to: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 1094, in write_pkg_file file.write('Author: %s\n' % self.get_contact() ) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 18: ordinal not in range(128) I would propose a patch for this problem but i don't know what would be the best input (i guess unicode for names) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/

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bdist_egg vs bdist_wininst oddity
by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven April 4, 2009

April 4, 2009

So I was building two new packages for Genshi and encountered this using setuptools 0.6c9: Genshi-0.5.1-py2.6-win32.egg Genshi-0.5.1.win32-py2.6.exe Why does the python version designation and platform specifier arbitrarily change place? Should this be logged as an issue to make sure such filenames are consistent? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーンラウフロックヴァンデルウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B Sometimes I wonder why are we so blind to face...

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[issue67] You can't tell easy_install not to talk to the network
by Glyph Lefkowitz April 3, 2009

April 3, 2009

New submission from Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph(a)twistedmatrix.com>: If I want to use easy_install for nice dependency resolution, there's no way (that I can figure out, at least) to tell it "never talk to the network, use only this local directory where you can find dependencies". ---------- messages: 260 nosy: glyph priority: feature status: unread title: You can't tell easy_install not to talk to the network _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue67> _______________________________________________

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[buildout] cool behaviour I didn't know about? :-)
by Chris Withers April 3, 2009

April 3, 2009

Hi All, I've been working on getting Zope 2.12 instances to build from a simple buildout without any funky recipes. This morning I tried this at the start: [buildout] parts = zeoinstance extends = http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/tags/2.12.0a1/versions-zope2.cfg ...expecting buildout to barf 'cos it couldn't find the versions-zope3.cfg that's referenced in versions-zope2.cfg. However, buildout happily did the right thing and downloaded it from http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/tags/2.12.0a1/versions-zope3.cfg Is this documented, expected behaviour (if so, where and why?) or have I just been lucky? Chris PS: If it is documented and expected, what would happen if I had my own versions-zope3.cfg in the same folder as my buildout.cfg? Which one would get picked? -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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