Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:19:49AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: | On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:13:23AM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: | > It also makes it easier for users to modify if a Python package's | > dependencies are incorrect, and it stops compiling under a newer version | > of Python, making

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:29:02PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > I've just had a look at this and it looks good. It perfectly meets the > > requirement of allowing pure python module packages to support multiple > > pythonX.Y

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:13:23AM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: > Donovan Baarda wrote: > > >finding all packages that depend on "python" is non-trivial using only > >dpkg. > >Something like dpkg-awk, grep-dctrl, or python-apt make it much easier, but > >do we want to depend on them? The old "regist

Mailman and python-central

2002-09-29 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Hi, to put the code where my mouth was I tried to make a patch for mailman using the python-register utility. It was just moving files around - so I could fire up python and do an 'import Mailman'. Unfortunately, I cannot test more of mailman at this time. Its always like this, you want to patch s

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Carey Evans
Donovan Baarda wrote: finding all packages that depend on "python" is non-trivial using only dpkg. Something like dpkg-awk, grep-dctrl, or python-apt make it much easier, but do we want to depend on them? The old "registry" idea would have made this a little easier, but I still prefer using the dpk

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:29:02PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > I've just had a look at this and it looks good. It perfectly meets the > requirement of allowing pure python module packages to support multiple > pythonX.Y python packages simultaniously. > > The only problem is we are still missin

Re: Fwd: python-biggles bug

2002-09-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:47:11PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > m??n 2002-09-23 klockan 22.34 skrev Graham Wilson: [...] > > > I can't think of a reason why you'd want the default package (as far > > > as I can see they are useless, since you have to rebuild your > > > packages every time a new

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:26:30AM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Hi, > > uploaded the new version 0.4 at > http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ > > python-central (0.4) unstable; urgency=low > > * renamed register-python-package to python-register, this way > its prefixed