Mailman 3 December 2017 - Distutils-SIG

PyPi/Warehouse & User Agent Strings
by Simon Kennedy Dec. 6, 2017

Dec. 6, 2017

A few quick questions about pip/pypi and user agent strings. Does PyPi/Warehouse do anything with the user agent string or does it just go into the BigQuery system? What elements of the user agent string are used? Is the pip source code the reference document or is there a separate specification? --- Simon

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Adding local options to commands
by Simon Kennedy Dec. 6, 2017

Dec. 6, 2017

Is there a recognized way to add options to distutils commands that are only for my local environment? For example I stick all my build artifacts in a directory, that is not in the source directory, and that will not be on the machine of someone who checks out my code. So I don't want to add it into setup.cfg where it will get checked in. For example I set bdist-base = ../../build/astral/master/tmp/bdist that other people won't want it to be written to. Currently I've created a setup-dev.cfg file and added code to my local distutils to also look in this file for options.

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Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 566 - Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.3
by Nathaniel Smith Dec. 6, 2017

Dec. 6, 2017

On Dec 5, 2017 08:42, "Dustin Ingram" <dustin.ingram(a)gmail.com> wrote: Provides-Extra (optional, multiple use) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: A string containing the name of an optional feature. Must be a valid Python identifier. May be used to make a dependency conditional on whether the optional feature has been requested. This introduction of this field allows packge installation tools (such as ``pip``) to determine which extras are provided by a given package, and so that package publication tools (such as ``twine``) can check for issues with environment markers which use extras. I haven't followed this so sorry if this is an annoying comment, but having read this description I still don't really understand what Provides-Extra is doing. Don't packages already include extra information? What problem motivated this? -n

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