Ben Finney writes:
> The idea is to parse from the Changelog the version metadata, and
> record it in Setuptools metadata. Then the ‘pkg_resources’ module of
> Setuptools allows programmatic access to that metadata.
One tricky aspect is: at what specific point should the Changelog be
parsed and
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:09:04 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
> Le mardi 13 janvier 2015 08:00:06 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:24:00 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
>>
>> > To tell you the truth, I'm unable to
>> > put your product to work.
>>
>>
>> If you follow the instructions i
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:24:00 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
> To tell you the truth, I'm unable to
> put your product to work.
If you follow the instructions in the README, and it still doesn't work,
that's a bug and I will be happy to fix it.
If you insist on doing things your own way, and breaking
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:37:03 -0800, wxjmfauth wrote:
> 1) I downloaded pyprimes-0.2.1a.tar.gz
> 2) I extracted the relevant part,
> the py files, the pyprimes subdirectory,
> awful.py, compat23.py, factors.py, test.py, .. and put in
> d:\junk
That is not the way packages work.
pyprimes
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> I currently read this metadata from the Python code itself. The
> advantages of putting the metadata into the source code include:
>
> - the source code is the definitive source of information about itself;
The Changelog document should be in the same source tree and ma
Ben Finney wrote:
[...]
> The perils of duplicate sources of information: a Changelog makes claims
> about which version is latest, but the packaging metadata comes from
> somewhere else.
>
> This problem is addressed quite well, in my opinion, by the Debian
> packaging tools. The tools by default
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> I've now produced a small Python library which knows how to transform a
> reST Changelog to package metadata; and how to get that package metadata
> into and out of a Python distribution with Distutils.
>
> The result is that I will never again
