[bip] [paul.joseph.davis at gmail.com: Re: Blog post on bioinformatics and Python]

[James Casbon]

2005 is when I first noticed it.

I did believe for a while that setuptools was going to make it into
core.  It is still controversial, though.

Python badly needs better package management.  At least PEP 370 is a
step in the right direction.

James

2008/9/15 Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis at gmail.com>:
> Comments are evil.
>
> I'm aware that python has namespace packaging, but AFAIK, its a
> setuptools extension. Not part of the core language itself.
>
> Also, any idea when that feature came out? I see it first mentioned
> for 0.5a9 but no date. Googling "setuptools 0.5a9" is returning stuff
> from 2005.
>
> Paul
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:56 PM, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> No comments on your blog??
>>
>> You should know that setuptools supports 'namespace packages' which
>> allow different contributors to share the same namespace:
>> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages
>>
>> cheers,
>> James
>>
>> 2008/9/14 Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis at gmail.com>:
>>> My bad. Too used to reply-all being set :D
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:48 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
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>>>> From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis at gmail.com>
>>>> To: titus at idyll.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [bip] Blog post on bioinformatics and Python
>>>>
>>>> Nice post. Though, my thoughts on the rise of bioperl differ somewhat.
>>>> Anyone else have thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.davispj.com/posts/python-in-bioinformatics.html
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> the list has been awfully quiet lately.  Here's something to stir up the
>>>>> rabble:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/sep-08/the-future-of-bioinformatics-part-1a.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I mention a few different Python frameworks there.  If there are other
>>>>> Python-in-bio sightings, please let me know on- or off-list... thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> --titus
>>>>> --
>>>>> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
>>>>>
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