Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 03:54:12PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 00:15 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:09:07PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > I think that wrapping up ruby and python packages into rpms seems
> > > to be of
> > > dubious benefit.  These projects have their own package management
> > > systems
> > > (that at least in ruby's case can handle multiple versions).  I'm
> > > very much
> > > tempted to get out of the business of packaging these things and
> > > just let
> > > people use the upstream language tools.  What does Fedora users
> > > gain with "dnf
> > > install rails" or "dnf install ipython" versus "gem install rails"
> > > and "pip
> > > install ipython"?
> > 
> > Not entirely on the topic but for pip we should for one recommend
> > using twine
> > instead of pip:
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twine
> 
> er...that doesn't sound anything like a pip alternative?
> 
> "Currently it only supports uploading distributions."

Hm, I might be mixing up things between downloading the packages and uploading
the tarball via python setup.py upload.
Sorry for the noise then

Pierre