Re: python-central 0.4

2002-10-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:05:32AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > The reason I said site-packages is the _right_ way, is it makes mailman > modules usable from other applications. However, I agree that we shouldn't > _require_ application specific modules to be in site-packages, particularly > when

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-10-03 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:21:34PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Donovan Baarda writes: > > > I wouldn't call moving some files the packaging hell, and I have yet to > > > understand why /usr/lib/mailman is so much saner or better than > > > /usr/lib/python/site-packages/mailman. > > > I looked in

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-10-03 Thread Matthias Klose
Donovan Baarda writes: > > I wouldn't call moving some files the packaging hell, and I have yet to > > understand why /usr/lib/mailman is so much saner or better than > > /usr/lib/python/site-packages/mailman. > > I looked into the mailman package. It should not be that much work to > > adapt it to

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-30 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:23:38AM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: > Donovan Baarda wrote: [...] > It might also be nice to have separate files that list the directories > or source files to compile for each package, and have python-central > call compileall itself, but I guess this is a separate issue

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-30 Thread Carey Evans
Donovan Baarda wrote: But this is redundant... if the package is installed, the corresponding *.py files _should_ be unpacked. How is testing for the existance of a file any better indication than testing for installation of the package? True... I think I'll try to blame my flawed argument on lack

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

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: 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