[Python-Dev] [Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you (original) (raw)

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Thu Apr 10 00:20:30 CEST 2008

On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

You are talking here about bdistrpm and not about a tool that would take a Python package distributed as an egg file and convert the egg to an rpm or a deb. Unfortunately, some Python packagers are beginning to limit their focus only to egg distribution. That creates a problem for users who have native operating system package management. That is indeed a problem -- but it's a social one, not a technical one. It's trivial for the publisher of an egg to change their command line from "setup.py bdistegg upload" to "setup.py sdist bdistegg upload", as soon as their users (politely) request that they do so.

In general, it would be good if eggs came with .py files by default
instead of .pyc files.

I've opened a ticket on my setuptools trac about this proposal:

http://allmydata.org/trac/setuptools/ticket/5 # binary eggs should
come with .py files by default, rather than .pyc files

Regards,

Zooko

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