[Vanhackspace] [Vanpyz] Links for the Mercurial Talk

[Kevin Teague]

Thanks for organizing the event, Henry!

On 8-Oct-09, at 11:13 AM, Henry Precheur wrote:
>
> Someone asked about my Blog: It's a bunch of text files which are
> transformed into HTML by a Python script. All the files are tracked
> under Mercurial. This allows me to create a branch for unfinished  
> posts
> or for experiments with the design; and still have a 'stable'  
> version of
> the Blog which doesn't contain the experimental stuff.
>
> For those interested here's the app I use for my Blog:
>  http://bitbucket.org/henry/weblog/
>  http://henry.precheur.org/weblog/
>

Hmm, "simple and robust", probably some nice properties for a blog. My  
blog fell-over this summer after a server hard drive failure and I  
haven't even started to tackle the re-install, since I know there are  
issues with 9 year old pickles in my blog's ZODB database ... :(

>
> Thanks to Sridhar for the talk about PyPM. It's nice to see that such
> thing exist, it feels a lot like a pythonic apt-get.
>

Speaking of old Python code, Sridhar's talk reminded me that  
ActiveState had a package manager in ActivePython 2.1 in 2001. At  
least that was my vague memory ... I googled for this and found out  
that my memory was indeed correct. The original 'pyppm' (with an extra  
'p' in the name, which if you expand the acryonym gives "Py Python  
Package Manager" ... you can never have enough 'py'!) was written by  
Houman Ghaemi, who was a co-worker of mine when I was at Stormix  
before he did his brief stint at ActiveState under the shadow of the  
dot-com bust. pyppm wasn't very much publicized though, there are  
fairly few references to it on the web, but the source is available  
in ./python/lib/python/site-packages/ in the ActivePython 2.1 source  
tarball:

http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/linux/2.1/ActivePython-2.1.3-214.tar.gz

Interestingly, it bundles an early version of Fredrick Lundh's  
'soaplib', since back in 2001, SOAP was still the "hot new format".  
Maybe Tarek should have propsed using SOAP for the .egg-info structure  
in PEP 376, I'm sure that would have been well received :)

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