Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 19 22:54:12 UTC 2015


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."
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net




More information about the devel mailing list