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

Olemis Lang olemis at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 16:07:52 CEST 2009

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Jens W. Klein <jens at bluedynamics.com> wrote:

Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 13:07 +0200 schrieb Christian Heimes:

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Oh, it was just yet another Zope developer behaving like an ass.  Why > am I not surprised? > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote: >> it's reviews like this that makes me wonder if releasing open source is >> a good idea: >>

Peace for the world brothers . Lots of yoga, meditation, tai-chi ... and tons of FOSS

>>   no egg - worst seen ever, remove it from pypi or provide an egg >> (jensens, 2009-10-05, 0 points) >> [...] Note-to-self: Never post when angry about some $whatever.

e.g. I don't do it either when I'm drunk or thinking about Britney ;o)

And as far as I understand PIL is not the problem, but the packaging/ setuptools.

well I just mentioned few times before (and J. P. Eby said something too, many times actually ;o) that setuptools solved a crucial problem that was unsolved when it was released

For the records: PIL is a great piece of software and I dont want to miss it.

Yes, and the fact is that without setuptools many other wonderful (commands | libs | frameworks | apps | software) would be in the darkness. I mention some of them :

the "small" price to pay is that there are a few annoying implementation details in there ...

I hope in future we have a packaging-tool solving those problems.

... or OTOH that some time is needed to improve it ;o) but considering the benefits ...

Besides you could use

{{{ $ easy_install -Z eggs_are_awesome.egg }}}

and the package will be installed directly in the file system ( modify .pth + PYTHONPATH if desired ;o).

-- Regards,

Olemis.

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