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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Tue Oct 6 16:39:12 CEST 2009

Chris Withers wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

mxSetup.py, the module implementing all our distutils extensions, is available in egenix-mx-base which is open source:

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ I have memories of mxBase having a load of other stuff in it too?

Yep, lots of it.

Would it be possible to split just the distutils extensions into their own package and get that package as an sdist on PyPI?

Nope. The main reason for having switched to distributions is to make things easier to manage - both for us and our users.

That said, I still think getting the bdistegg code, at least, into Distutils in the core as soon as possible would be a very good thing. It's kinda odd having the python equivalent of jars or gems only being created by third party software that's no longer maintained...

Note how the package name is mangled... easyinstall requires this. The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for a UCS2 Python build. Again, easyinstall fails with that information added to the "py2.6" version marker. Surely this stuff all belongs in the static metadata file that keeps on overcomplicating itself in discussions?

The complicated stuff does belong somewhere else, but the basic things need to go into the filename - simply because you have to build separate files for each Python build dimension and want to be able to put everything into a single directory or index:

E.g. to solve the UCS2/4 part, we had to setup separate PyPI-style index sites. We'd really like to avoid that if possible.

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