[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5. (original) (raw)
Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Apr 20 23:10:22 CEST 2006
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Ian Bicking wrote:
And now for a little pushback the other way -- as of this January TurboGears has served up 100,000 egg files (I'm not sure what the window for all those downloads is, but it hasn't been very long). Has it occurred to you that they know something you don't about distribution?
oh, effbot.org is shipping lots of packages too. 100,000 may sound a lot to you, but there are surprisingly many python users out there these days... (if I had a $ for every download, etc, etc).
ElementTree would be among those egg files, so you should also consider how many people haven't asked you about problems related to the installation process.
as you may have noticed, I tend to hang out on the TurboGears list, so yes, I'm well aware of their use of eggs. a couple of observations:
turbogears is hosting all eggs on their own site.
they're currently discussing whether to use stricter version requirements for individual components, to increase the chance that people end up using a combination that someone else has actually tested.
people keep reporting download problems and compatibility problems.
it's not obvious to me that they hadn't been better off if they'd just shipped everything in a good old tarball...
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