Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-22 Thread John J Lee
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: [...] > I don't see how the maintainer could use the dependency information > in the egg files. The maintainers could use the dependency information in the egg files by writing a tool to automatically map from the egg dep info to whatever format their

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-22 Thread John J Lee
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, John J Lee wrote: [...] > Actually, I believe this is the eventual primary intended mode of > operation of eggs. In that case, the necessary sys.path manipulation is > handled either by setuptools' wrapper scripts / wrapper .exe files calling > require(versio

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-22 Thread John J Lee
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 11:56 PM 11/22/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >>>Debian should provide the packages, but not as eggs. > >> > >>For packages that only operate as eggs, and/or require their dependencies > >>as eggs, you are stating a co

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-22 Thread John J Lee
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > As > > I've already stated, applying this same policy to Java libraries would > > be to demanding that all the .class files be extracted to the filesystem > > and any manifest files be deleted, before Debian would consent to > > package them. I