Evolve 5.5.0 released

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Tue Nov 1 16:46:19 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Pierre-Yves David
<pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>> How many other user are using the setup.py directly ? Could we have the
>>> setup.py abort unless run through pip ? (or any other package manager)
>>
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>> I'm using it as part of the Solaris build (as I am for all other Python
>> packages).
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> Does Solaris has a package manager that is able to properly remove the old
> package file when installing the new one ?


Yes. I think what Danek was pointing out is that the Solaris packaging
scripts need to use 'setup.py install' to stage things so the package
can be built. The deb rules work the same way, for what it's worth.
We'd need a workaround for that if we want to try and recommend pip
with some force.



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