[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi? (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Oct 5 13:28:43 CEST 2009

He's not the first one from the Zope community (whatever that is) that's behaved this way on this specific topic. The problem here is that a certain (marginal) user community decides to standardize on a certain distribution model, and then goes off attacking people who've released stuff before they did that. That is a community problem.

(Luckily, there are people helping out, and the "nice people driven-development" rule overrides that other rule I mentioned, so things will get tweaked sooner or later.)

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass.  Why am I not surprised? Tarring an entire community for the actions of one twit is more than a little unfair. It's fine that you don't like eggs and it's fine that you don't want to provide them. There's a reason egg-based packaging tools make it fairly easy to create an egg from a normal sdist package. As for people being twits... it's the internet. There isn't a lot to be done other than to ignore them. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

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