[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ? (original) (raw)

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Thu Sep 15 18:23:11 CEST 2011


Le 13/09/2011 18:34, Michael Foord a écrit :

On 13/09/2011 16:57, Éric Araujo wrote:

(IIRC PyPI will require us to play games to have both 2.x and 3.x versions of distutils2.) What I'm doing for unittest2. [...] 2) I have a pypi project called unittestpy3k that holds the Python 3 version of unittest2 Projects using unittest2 for Python 3 then have a dependency on unittest2py3k - but the actual Python package name is unittest2.

That’s what I call playing games. I think it would make more sense to push 2.x-compatible and 3.x-compatible sdists to PyPI (with an appropriate 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2' or '3' classifier) and have the download tools be smart.

Regards



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