Notes from the python guidelines discussion at flock

[Nick Coghlan]

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On 08/21/2013 10:44 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Greetings everyone, we had a productive session at flock and
> actually covered everything that was in my email message about a
> potential agenda. Here's the notes:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Flock2013_Python_Guidelines

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> 
current limitation relevant to Fedora and EPEL: pip & wheel don't
yet support an equivalent to the pkg_resources parallel version
support. They use virtualenv for that kind of functionality, which
isn't a suitable option for system packages.

I plan to include this capability in the next iteration of the
installation database spec (using an approach similar to the current
setuptools approach), but we'll need to be aware of it for any
packages that currently rely on parallel installs (e.g. anything with
a CherryPy 2 dependency), since they won't be able to migrate to wheel
based installation any time soon.

See discussion at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-August/022450.html
for more details.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane

Testing Solutions Team Lead
Beaker Development Lead (http://beaker-project.org/)
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