On 06.09.2015 22:06, Ned Batchelder wrote:
As a developer of a Python package, I don't see how this would be better.
The developer would still have to get their software into some kind of
uniform configuration, so the central authority could package it. You've
moved the problem from, "everyone h
s?
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>I had not real answer to him, but pondering a while over it, I found it
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>really insightful. Viewing this from a different angle, packaging your
>own distribution is actually a waste of time. It is a tedious,
>error-prone task involving no creativity whatsoever. Developers on the
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at hand which
> should spend better. The logical conclusion would be that PyPI should build
> wheels for the developers for every python/platform combination necessary.
I think that some of that could be done by warehouse at some point:
https://github.com/pypa/warehouse
But you will never b
On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 1:33:58 PM UTC-4, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
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> Why do developers need to build their distribution themselves?
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> ...
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> With this post, I would like raise awareness of the people in charge of
> the Python infrastructure.
Sven, you ask a question, and then say you
On 06/09/2015 20:31, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 9/6/2015 1:33 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
With this post, I would like raise awareness of the people in charge of
the Python infrastructure.
pypa is in charge of packaging. https://github.com/pypa
I believe the google groups link is their discussion foru
In a message of Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:31:16 -0400, Terry Reedy writes:
>On 9/6/2015 1:33 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
>>
>> With this post, I would like raise awareness of the people in charge of
>> the Python infrastructure.
>
>pypa is in charge of packaging. https://github.com/pypa
>I believe the googl
te of time. It is a tedious,
error-prone task involving no creativity whatsoever. Developers on the
other hand are actually people with very little time and a lot of
creativity at hand which should spend better. The logical conclusion
would be that PyPI should build wheels for the developers for every
us,
error-prone task involving no creativity whatsoever. Developers on the
other hand are actually people with very little time and a lot of
creativity at hand which should spend better. The logical conclusion
would be that PyPI should build wheels for the developers for every
python/platform comb
