Re: Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS (was: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git)

2013-11-22 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Ben Finney: " Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS (was: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git)" (Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:35:11 +1100): @Ben: apologies, first mail was sent to your mail address instead of the group > Piotr Ożar

Re: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git

2013-11-22 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Piotr Ożarowski: " Re: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git" (Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:56:05 +0100): @Piotr: apologies for first not sending the mail to the group, but your mail address > [Thomas Goirand, 2013-11-21] > > On 11/21/2013 08:28 PM, Mathias Behrl

Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS (was: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git)

2013-11-21 Thread Ben Finney
Piotr Ożarowski writes: > I think Mathias is asking about how to tell git that it should ignore > these files as well. IMO you should ask upstream to not ship these > files in git repo/tarballs or remove them in the first commit after > each merge with upstream. Yes, the best course is to convin

Re: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git

2013-11-21 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Thomas Goirand, 2013-11-21] > On 11/21/2013 08:28 PM, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > So finally I would appreciate any input on > > > > 1) Which is the preferred procedure to handle .egg-info directories together > >with building from git? > > > > 2) Is there a way to satisfy all common build too

Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git

2013-11-21 Thread Mathias Behrle
Hello Pythonistas, I am just searching for some input/confirmation for the best practice with respect to .egg-info provided in upstream tarballs. My initial approach was based on the recommendations in the Python Library Style Guide [1] and App Style Guide [2] to avoid evtl. double build failures

Re: Best practice: .egg-info with pybuild from git

2013-11-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/21/2013 08:28 PM, Mathias Behrle wrote: > So finally I would appreciate any input on > > 1) Which is the preferred procedure to handle .egg-info directories together >with building from git? > > 2) Is there a way to satisfy all common build tools as debuild, >git-buildpackage, pbuil