Re: __file__ is a disease

2010-01-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 30 janvier 2010 à 19:20 -0500, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > I think it's not so much that pkg_resources is complex, but that it has a lot > of extra API that most people won't need. Hopefully the distutils-sig will > distill the essential pieces of that and push it into the stdlib. I was >

Join Python Module team

2010-01-31 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Hi, I would like to join Debian Python Module team at Alioth, my alioth id is deepak-guest. -- Thanks Deepak Tripathi E3 71V3 8Y C063 (We Live By Code) http://deepaktripathi.blogspot.com

Re: Join Python Module team

2010-01-31 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Deepak Tripathi, 2010-01-31] > I would like to join Debian Python Module team at Alioth, my alioth id is > deepak-guest. sure, but... why do you want to join us? http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam/HowToJoin -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.oza

Re: Ideal directory structure?

2010-01-31 Thread Umang
On 31/01/10 02:05, Pietro Battiston wrote: As far as I know, I'm not supposed to decide or even know how users will install my application... Unfortunately, all the files are supposed to go to sys.prefix (/usr on most Linux distros) [1]. I still don't understand why this has been patched to

Re: Ideal directory structure?

2010-01-31 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Umang, 2010-01-31] > Unfortunately, all the files are supposed to go to sys.prefix (/usr > on most Linux distros) [1]. I still don't understand why this has > been patched to make it so difficult to understand. As a newbie, I > look up distutils on the net, find the Python documentation, believe >

Re: Ideal directory structure?

2010-01-31 Thread Umang
Now that this discussion has split into various sub-discussions, I don't mind digressing... On 31/01/10 20:29, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: To make it a little bit less painful (and follow FHS) Debian's python (since 2.6) installs to /usr/local by default. This way system packages will still be broke

Re: Ideal directory structure?

2010-01-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 31, 2010, at 08:53 PM, Umang wrote: >But I'll never find my data files in sys.prefix + >path_i_asked_distutils_to_install_to. So what according to you, is the >right way to go about distributing? This situation is definitely not ideal. The Pythonic way (IMO) is to use pkg_resources: htt

Re: Ideal directory structure?

2010-01-31 Thread Umang
On 31/01/10 21:13, Barry Warsaw wrote: The Pythonic way (IMO) is to use pkg_resources: Great. So distutils is not sufficient to get everything done. I'm not a fan of complications, so I'm going to postpone that long read. For now at least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ..

Re: Ideal directory structure?

2010-01-31 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Barry Warsaw, 2010-01-31] > On Jan 31, 2010, at 08:53 PM, Umang wrote: > > >But I'll never find my data files in sys.prefix + > >path_i_asked_distutils_to_install_to. So what according to you, is the > >right way to go about distributing? This situation is definitely not ideal. > > The Pythoni

Re: Join Python Module team

2010-01-31 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Hi, i do work with debian-perl and debian-ruby team, now i have started packaging python module. I have couple of python related ITP and would like to maintain with the team :) . Thanks Deepak On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Deepak Tripathi, 2010-01-31] > > I woul

Re: RFS: foolscap (updated package)

2010-01-31 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Elliot Murphy, 2010-01-31] > All done, committed to svn uploaded -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 signature.asc Description

python-wxgtk2.6 setup error

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Pasotto
Aptitude is giving me this error: Setting up python-wxgtk2.6 (2.6.3.2.2-4+b1) ... file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wxversion.py pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (260) pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (260) dpkg: error processing pytho

Re: python-wxgtk2.6 setup error

2010-01-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Rick Pasotto , 2010-01-31, 11:28: Setting up python-wxgtk2.6 (2.6.3.2.2-4+b1) ... file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wxversion.py pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (260) pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (260) dpkg: error processing py