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Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules

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From	Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 11:56 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
> here is a new way to package modules for Python:
> https://github.com/takluyver/flit
> 
> It means that something packaged using it doesn't use a setup.py or some 
> such, but a flit.ini ; see for example:
> https://github.com/jupyter/testpath
> 
> I'm not sure how to package something like this (and testpath is a 
> depends for IPython's tests), so I think asking here is better.

By the way, I am also upstream for flit, and I'm prepared to help build
some tooling to use it for distro packaging. I know it will cause some
inconvenience in the short term because there's infrastructure around
setup.py packaging, but ultimately I think that having declarative
metadata should be an advantage.

Thomas

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Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-19 09:00 +0200
  Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-19 10:00 +0200
    Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2015-09-19 10:10 +0200
      Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-19 13:30 +0200
    Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-09-19 18:40 +0200
      Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <takluyver@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-20 13:10 +0200
        Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-24 12:40 +0200
          Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk> - 2015-09-24 13:20 +0200
            Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-26 01:30 +0200
              Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2015-09-26 01:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-26 02:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2015-09-26 05:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-28 00:30 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2015-09-26 11:40 +0200
                Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> - 2015-09-26 17:20 +0200

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