From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xopen. Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:23:26 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20161214225712.31168-1-me@tobias.gr> <87fulpsg54.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <9d677194-d2a5-51b1-cd00-b3edeaa6b45c@tobias.gr> <871sx7svo9.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIQCa-00028e-5Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:23:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIQCX-0001L4-0r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:23:48 -0500 Received: from mailhub2.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.209]:46322 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIQCW-0001Ji-FB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:23:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice , mbakke@fastmail.com, guix-devel@gnu.org On 18/12/16 11:00, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Marius, > > On 16/12/16 17:09, Marius Bakke wrote: >> Pypi archives are sometimes smaller than the raw sources > Oh, I didn't know that. > >> or otherwise "prepared", but I guess no inherent benefits. > Good point. I can certainly see people relying too heavily on GitHub > (and similar) tarball auto-generation, while uploading a better one to > PyPI that they've actually bootstrapped. > > Since this one builds fine, and the GitHub project is the official home > page for better or worse, I'd vote against adding an =E2=80=98additiona= l > dependency on PyPI infrastucture=E2=80=99 as I think someone on the lis= t put it. Another reason for using pypi is that the github updater ignores tagged=20 but not released 'releases', such as this. Perhaps we should change=20 that, do others have an opinion? Since using pypi is the way Python users expect to be able to install=20 packages, making developers less concerned about their github releases=20 than their pypi ones, I reckon sticking with pypi-uri is the way to go. ben