Xavier Morel wrote: > If you ever used a debian-based linux system, think of Eggs as a > Python-specific apt-get. > > The most advanced kind of language-specific installer atm is the Ruby > Gems packaging and distribution system (http://docs.rubygems.org/), go > check it for more insight of what Eggs wants to be (and I hope it'll > evolve to be as good as gems) (and the install software should be named > eggs or hatch, not easy_install, ugly).
Could anyone enlighten me/us as to why the Smart Package Manager [1] (written in Python, presented at EuroPython this year) isn't being more closely investigated as part of a suitable solution? Paul [1] http://smartpm.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list