On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:04 +0100, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote: > Alle 12:34, venerdì 25 novembre 2005, Paul Moore ha scritto: > > On 11/25/05, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Please read > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-November/005520.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-November/005521.html > > Can my proposal resolve the "suckiness". [...]
Some of it, yes. In any case, I think it is worthwhile "fixing" eggs so that they consider an installed deb as an egg... this way non-deb eggs installed in /home/ or /usr/local can leverage of already installed debs managed by the Debian Package manager. The phrase "run-time dependency checking" in the first post disturbs me in a not-really-related-to-this-discussion way. It feels wrong; surely dependency checking should be done at install time? Perhaps my perspective is distorted by Debian's excellent install-time dependency checking... The only reasons I can see to do run-time dependency checking is to continue to operate in a degraded mode when an optional dependency is not available. I hope like hell egg's don't do run-time dependency installation... that would be really bad. Installing is a privileged operation. Running is not. -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
