Okay, maybe that’s a bit bold. But the new EasyInstall command-line tool can take any number of distutils source package URLs (or local filenames), download them, build them, and install them with or without a .pth file. Better yet, you can also...
It seems that CPAN clones are in the air of late. Yesterday, Ian Bicking posted a comment here that he was working on an automated download facility, and today, there was a Planet Python post about Uraga, a CPAN clone some other folks are working on...
Well, I finally managed to squeeze out a few cycles to work on Python Eggs, which I’d left virtually untouched since the work Bob Ippolito and I did on them at Pycon. The net result is that this weekend I finished the core dependency resolution...
Major update to generic functions in CVS: Well, I finally did it. I finally nailed that O(n^2) inequality algorithm, and now only a handful of less-frequently-used criteria types show nonlinear behavior. Before the change, it took almost 2 seconds...
I just got an email from meetup.com today that was supposed to be an “apology” for the way they recently announced their change to being a for-pay service. They weren’t actually changing anything, mind you, but they wanted to apologize for how they...
43 Folders: Does this “next action” belong someplace else?: A nice checklist for pruning your “next action” lists of “Klingons” – items that cling to your list day after day without actually getting done.
Wow. Almost two weeks since PyCon, and one week since my last post. Lots of interesting stuff going on. On Friday, I’m off to Las Vegas with my wife for the International Lingerie Show. No, not that kind of lingerie show; it’s a trade show, where...
Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
Well, it’s actually a little more than halfway through the actual conference, but things have a sort of halfway feel for me. Today I did my presentation on generic functions, and I think I did okay. A small crowd of people gathered outside...
I just skimmed the PyCon 2005 presentations and papers, and it was interesting to see a few that present ideas that could also be implemented using simple generic functions. For example, Zope 3’s subscription adapters are something you could do...
Bob Ippolito and I hacked out a lot of the Python Eggs implementation today. (My new shorthand for explaining them is “An egg is to a Python as a jar is to Java”.) I wrote a “bdist_egg” command for setuptools, which is a Python sandbox project where...
Everything’s ready, I think. I hope. The presentation slides are up. I’m almost packed. I’ve got dried meat and other provisions ready. The laptop appears ready to go, and I’m actually posting this from the laptop. It’s my wife’s laptop, and...
