Mailman 3 January 2011 - Distutils-SIG

setuptools and man pages
by Andrew McNabb 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

I am maintaining a package that includes several scripts, and I recently added a man page. Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out how to specify the man page with setuptools. I ended up switching back to vanilla distutils, which allowed me to specify the man page in setup.py: data_files=[('man/man1', ['man/man1/pssh.1'])] Is there an equivalent way to do this with setuptools? The closest thing I could find in the setuptools documentation was, "Note, by the way, that this encapsulation of data files means that you can't actually install data files to some arbitrary location on a user's machine; this is a feature, not a bug." I appreciate the well-intended thought, but I can't find any feature for specifying man pages. I don't want to install to an arbitrary location, but I need to be able to install to $PREFIX/man/man1). Is there a way to do this with setuptools, or do I need to keep using distutils? I would love to be able to use the "console_scripts" feature, so it would be great if I could use setuptools, but obviously the man pages are higher priority. I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Thanks. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868

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zc.buildout socket-timeout option
by Dave Peticolas 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

A quick question about this buildout option. Am I right that it isn't actually enabled yet? It doesn't seem to have any effect for me (this is on buildout 1.5.2), but using -t has a noticeable effect. thanks, dave

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current ez_setup.py appears to refers a non existing URL?
by Jan-Wijbrand Kolman 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hi, Since about an hour or so, when I run ez_setup.py (by way of a zc.buildout bootstrap.py script), I get this: Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c12-py2.7.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "bootstrap.py", line 172, in <module> ez['use_setuptools'](**setup_args) File "<string>", line 76, in use_setuptools File "<string>", line 70, in do_download File "<string>", line 131, in download_setuptools File "/home/jw/runtime/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/home/jw/runtime/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 398, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/home/jw/runtime/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 511, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "/home/jw/runtime/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 436, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/home/jw/runtime/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 370, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/home/jw/runtime/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found And indeed, when I download ez_setup.py myself: $ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and run it, I also get the 404 on the URL: http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c12-py2.7.egg. I have been bootstrap.py-ing packages all day long and suddenly they stopped to work. Am I doing something wrong, or is the ez_setup.py broken? Kind regards, jw

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[issue120] cli.exe quits on ctrl-c, but python doesn't
by Guy Rozendorn 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

New submission from Guy Rozendorn <guy(a)rzn.co.il>: the cli should use SetConsoleCtrlHandler to ignore CTRL-C and pass it to its child process ---------- messages: 573 nosy: guyroz priority: bug status: unread title: cli.exe quits on ctrl-c, but python doesn't _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue120> _______________________________________________

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Re: [Distutils] Bootstrap use_setuptools() in ez_setup.py failure
by P.J. Eby 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

At 01:55 PM 1/20/2011 +0800, Pherl Liu wrote: >Hmm, I think it now only delete pkg_resource when >pkg_resrouces.VersionConflict is caught, but the fix should be also >delete pkg_resources when pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound is caught. Good catch. Under previous use cases, the only time you'd have pkg_resources and *not* setuptools, it would be if you were bundling pkg_resources. Nowadays, though, some distros split setuptools from pkg_resources, so you can have an older, distro-supplied pkg_resources, but no setuptools. Anyway, I've fixed this in SVN and on the website now. Thanks!

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Re: [Distutils] Bootstrap use_setuptools() in ez_setup.py failure
by P.J. Eby 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

At 03:40 PM 1/19/2011 +0800, Pherl Liu wrote: >Well.. > >I think I can fix this by editing ez_setup.py > >adding oneline after pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound is caught, >in use_setuptools() > >del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources'] > >Not sure if this makes sense. That's already in current versions of ez_setup.py; 0.6c9 is several years old. I'd suggest you use the svn externals to keep it up-to-date. See: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#managing-multiple-projec… for details.

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Re: [Distutils] Bootstrap use_setuptools() in ez_setup.py failure
by P.J. Eby 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

At 04:42 PM 1/12/2011 +0800, Pherl Liu wrote: >Hi, > >I got some error messages when using ez_setup to download and use >the easy_install. > ># setup.py >from ez_setup import use_setuptools >use_setuptools() > >from setuptools import setup > >setup(name = "blabla", > test_suite = "some_test", > namespace_package = ["some_namespace"], > # many other options >) > > >So I guess there might be some import problem in my machine (ubuntu >lucid) that the pkg_resources.py cannot be loaded from the egg? Try running this script in your project directory: from ez_setup import use_setuptools use_setuptools() import sys, setuptools, pkg_resources print sys.path print pkg_resources.__file__ print setuptools.__file__ This should tell us what's going on with your "import problem" more specifically. ;-)

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Re: [Distutils] PEP 345: real-world examples of "virtual" projects (Provides-Release)
by Sridhar 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hi, > From: Alexis Métaireau <alexis(a)notmyidea.org> > On 12/21/2010 09:41 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: >> >> 3. Did anyone--Alexis and Tarek, in particular--think of real-world use >> cases for virtual projects (and even "provides" in general) other than >> the Zope transaction case? If yes, what are they? > > "Provides-Release" lists the specific projects provided with this > distribution. One case I can think about is having a distribution > providing two different projects. > > A software can have a project for the "core" features and a project for > the "default-plugins". It can then provides the two projects in only one > distribution. > > Those can be two virtual projects 'core' and 'defaultplugins', which can > be *provided* by different projects then. This allows to choose between > the possible projects when resolving the dependencies. What is the benefit of distributing two projects in a single distribution, compared to the more simpler (traditional) solution of distributing them in separate distributions (and, optionally, making one depend on another; eg: 'core' depend on 'defaultplugins')? Does this benefit justify the cost of introducing a new metadata field? > setuptools and distribute can be both provided by the same virtual project. Is this the only real-world use of virtual projects? Are there (potential) others? >> 4. Personally, I have needs for "virtual" packages from a binary (not >> source) distribution perspective. For example, "MySQL-python" can be a >> virtual package "provided by" the binary distributions: mysql5.1-python, >> mysql5.0-python; > [...] >> How would PEP 345's "Provides-Release" help, if at >> all, in describing this scenario? > > I'm not sure it will help in this case, unfortunately. Ok. -Sridhar ActiveState

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Setting version from commandline or setup.cfg?
by Alan Franzoni 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hello, I'm trying to automate my release process from vcs - something like: run tests -> fetch current major, minor from branch (e.g. release_1.2) and revision from tag (e.g. v1.2.1) -> upload with current major, minor and revision +1 > tag with such current major, minor and incremented revision. I'd like to set my version from outside my setup.py file, either via setup.py or a commandline option - I don't want to execute code in my setup.py since this usually causes all sort of headaches with missing dependencies. Is there any proper way to do it? Might I break other things unexpectedly? -- Alan Franzoni -- contact me at public(a)[mysurname].eu

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buildout download cache
by rafael＠nexedi.com 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi, We are using extensively buildout to build ERP5 [1]: - https://svn.erp5.org/repos/public/erp5/trunk/buildout/ We are planning to extend buildout download API to provide a distributed automatic packaging and caching system so that even if original source web site is down, the buildout process can stil run. This could also be useful to build software in secured networks. Do you know of any similar project before we start? [1] www.erp5.com Regards, Rafael Monnerat ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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