From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 27110@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Subject: bug#27110: [PATCH] gnu: asciinema: Update to 1.4.0.
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:16:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba6b74c1.AEUAKl2xUTQAAAAAAAAAAAPFk78AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZK7W1@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f10fuwp.fsf@fastmail.com>
Marius Bakke writes:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 03:48:36AM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Could you switch to upstream's github release tarball instead?
>>> >> https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/archive/v1.4.0.tar.gz
>>> >>
>>> >> LGTM, otherwise!
>>> >
>>> > Is there a reason to prefer one over the other?
>>> >
>>> > I ask because, typically, these unammed GitHub tarballs are not actual
>>> > releases prepared by the maintainers, but just a snapshot of the Git
>>> > repo, created automatically by GitHub for each tag. PyPi tends to
>>> > contain the "real" release in cases like this.
>>>
>>> I thought it is better to depend directly on the upstream source
>>> (github, in this case) than on an intermediary (pypi) who has also
>>> packaged the software. If we use pypi, Guix becomes some kind of second
>>> order package repository that depends on pypi, the primary package
>>> repository. WDYT?
>>
>> My understanding is that project maintainers upload their releases to
>> PyPi, not that PyPi packages the release for them. Is that incorrect?
>
> This is true. The PyPi releases are often different from the raw
> sources, look for the magic lines "packages" and "package_data" in
> setup.py[0] to see what is included/excluded in the PyPi archive.
> Unfortunately some packages also exlude tests, in which case it's okay
> to use the upstream repository.
>
> Some projects provide PGP signatures on PyPi as well, which is great.
> Take matplotlib for example:
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib (PGP signed tarball, 52MiB)
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/releases (no signature, 51MiB)
>
> [0] https://packaging.python.org/distributing/
Ok, we'll use the pypi tarball, then. I'm building something else
now. Once I'm done, I'll build asciinema, verify, and push.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-29 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-28 1:16 bug#27110: [PATCH] gnu: asciinema: Update to 1.4.0 Alex Griffin
2017-05-28 17:00 ` Arun Isaac
2017-05-28 18:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-28 22:18 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <2dff1be8.ADsAAhu0Cj4AAAAAAAAAAAO8ccgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZK0zP@mailjet.com>
2017-05-28 22:33 ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-28 23:01 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-29 5:46 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2017-05-29 17:26 ` Arun Isaac
2017-05-29 19:23 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <a9d8e951.AEAAKtByx2QAAAAAAAAAAAO8ccgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZLHUl@mailjet.com>
2017-05-29 20:42 ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-30 8:20 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <be173c52.AEMAK1ybgp8AAAAAAAAAAAPFd4cAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZLStT@mailjet.com>
2017-05-30 15:10 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-30 16:06 ` Arun Isaac
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