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Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite

From	Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite
Date	2015-09-19 07:20 +0200
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Hi,

Le vendredi 18 sept. 2015 à 14:52:53 (-0700), Thomas Kluyver a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 08:49 AM, Julien Puydt wrote:
> > What is annoying is that some of the packages have a dependency chain 
> > going in some way, and an extra dependency chain going the other way. 
> > For a concrete example, ipykernel depends on ipython... but ipython has 
> > an extra-dep on ipykernel.
> 
> The extra deps in IPython are for backwards compatibility, so that if
> people have scripted (or remembered) commands like "pip install
> ipython[notebook]", they will continue to work, by pulling in the
> separated package which now contains that functionality. In time we will
> probably remove these.

That is very comforting!
 
> I'd recommend that you ignore these compatibility dependencies (that is,
> all the extra dependency groups of IPython besides doc and test).

Of those only testpath looks problematic (I filled an issue on it 
yesterday), so the future looks quite bright.

Thanks,

Snark on #debian-python

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Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-18 18:00 +0200
  Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-19 00:10 +0200
    Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-19 07:20 +0200
  Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-21 21:00 +0200
  Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-21 21:10 +0200
  Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-25 07:50 +0200
    Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-25 14:30 +0200
    Re: Packaging the Jupyter project suite Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr> - 2015-09-25 14:30 +0200

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