Re: Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS

2013-11-24 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python > > It is probably about time it were demoted from that. Well, that's not a decision that is for ‘debian-python’ to make :-) Distutils is the officially s

Re: Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS

2013-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python It is probably about time it were demoted from that. Not supporting dependency information in a useful way is not really acceptable today. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Pa

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

2013-11-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 25, 2013, at 08:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python, it >would be worth trying to convince your package's upstream to migrate to >that. But not strictly necessary, if you are okay with handling the >unofficial Setuptools. This reminds m

Re: Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS

2013-11-24 Thread Ben Finney
Mathias Behrle writes: > I am packaging from release tarballs published on downloads.tryton.org > resp. pypi [1]. (I don't know what you mean by “resp.”, that's not something I recognise as English. I assume these are simply tarballs published on PyPI by the upstream developers.) > Those tarbal

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 Ożarowski writes: >