Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Andi Vajda
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Bill Janssen wrote: Christian Heimes wrote: It makes no sense to offer binaries of an open source Python extension except for Windows. Any other important operating system (Linux, Mac, *BSD) has the necessary tools already on board or they can be easily installed. Well

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Andi Vajda
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Christian Heimes wrote: Andi Vajda wrote: Hmm, that's an idea... It is my understanding that for a package to 'work' in PyPI it needs to have some setup.py support, right ? JCC, for example, is already on PyPI since it's entirely built with setup.py. PyLucene, on the oth

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Janssen
Christian Heimes wrote: > It makes no sense to offer binaries of an open source Python extension > except for Windows. Any other important operating system (Linux, Mac, > *BSD) has the necessary tools already on board or they can be easily > installed. Well, building pylucene is pretty complicat

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Janssen
Christian Heimes wrote: > I know of no rule that forbids Makefile based installation routines. I include a Makefile with the ssl module, for instance. And easy_install hooks aren't a requirement; in fact, I consider a connection to setuptools a red flag (folks following the distutils mailing li

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Christian Heimes
Andi Vajda wrote: > Hmm, that's an idea... > > It is my understanding that for a package to 'work' in PyPI it needs to have > some setup.py support, right ? JCC, for example, is already on PyPI since > it's entirely built with setup.py. > > PyLucene, on the other hand, does not have a setup.py

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Andi Vajda
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Christian Heimes wrote: Andi Vajda wrote: That's great ! I'm not sure what the policy is for posting links to external binaries on the site but if you send these links to the list, at least people would be able to find them. How about you register "pylucene" on PyPI and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-14 Thread Christian Heimes
Andi Vajda wrote: > That's great ! > I'm not sure what the policy is for posting links to external binaries > on the site but if you send these links to the list, at least people > would be able to find them. How about you register "pylucene" on PyPI and give me upload permission? You'd be the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-13 Thread Andi Vajda
On Oct 13, 2009, at 23:46, Christian Heimes wrote: Andi Vajda wrote: I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache PyLucene 2.9.0. Thank you very much! I've created Windows 32bit binaries of JCC and PyLucene 2.9.0 for Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 build with VS 7.1 and VS 9.0. I'm happy

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.0

2009-10-13 Thread Christian Heimes
Andi Vajda wrote: > I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache PyLucene 2.9.0. Thank you very much! I've created Windows 32bit binaries of JCC and PyLucene 2.9.0 for Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 build with VS 7.1 and VS 9.0. I'm happy to share them with the rest of the world. They should put