[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 03:43:15 CEST 2006

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

On 20-apr-2006, at 23:46, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

So if this attitude (Python Eggs are the preferred binary distribution format) is wrong, it is the attitude that has to change first. Changes to the documentation follow from that. If the attitude is right, I'll have to accept that I have a minority opinion. IMHO python eggs are the preferred distribution format for several use cases, but not all. They are very usefull for systems that lack a proper package manager of their own and for managing a developers sandbox. As a sysadminI'd be a lot less inclined to use eggs to install software on a system with a proper package manager (like most linux distributions) because the eggs will then not be visible in the global view of installed software or play nice with vendor software management tools.

Maybe we need something that's the equivalent of alien (rpm -> dpkg converter), so that given an egg, one can easily get a native installer for that egg.

Regards, Nick.

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