Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Bob Tanner wrote: > Is there an agreement amongst the interested debian-python > developers/packagers that Debian must support .egg's? Well, let's agree that this is desirable, perhaps strongly, depending on how widespread the use of .eggs is, to support applications using it. > Answering the -IF-

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Bob Tanner wrote: Is there an agreement amongst the interested debian-python developers/packagers that Debian must support .egg's? Answering the -IF- will let us move forward to the HOW. Terminology is really critical here. Eggs are a certain structure of information: a meta-data system along

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Tanner
On Monday 28 November 2005 03:22 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: > You are completely misunderstanding the issue. There can be no such > thing as "Debian support for eggs". There can only be some Debian > packages of eggified software. And there will be, as some developers > will want to make them. Ve

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:51:26PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > Starting a separate thread from the "formencode as .egg in Debian ??" > discussion since this issue is internal to Debian and I don't want DD's to > "beat-up" upstream development anymore. :-) Thank you for bringing this up. The beating

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 13:51 -0600, Bob Tanner a écrit : > IF Debian decides -not- to support .egg's a few python code bases (modules, > applications, etc) will break. > > Looking into the future more python code bases will move to .egg so the > number of broken code bases will only increase

Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Tanner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Starting a separate thread from the "formencode as .egg in Debian ??" discussion since this issue is internal to Debian and I don't want DD's to "beat-up" upstream development anymore. :-) Good or bad python .egg's are here to stay. Following the "for