Re: Re: Python Egg Guidelines across distros

2007-09-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 10 septembre 2007 à 20:40 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit : > Also, eggs (as in the egg metadata that comes with the packages; not the > optional pseudo-jar copying zip format) may be duplication but it is not > needless duplication. Elf shared libraries and packages contain > duplicate in

Re: Re: Python Egg Guidelines across distros

2007-09-10 Thread Gael Varoquaux
Hi, The reason why I get rid of setuptools as a install and runtime requirement is that they introduce a huge over head on the import, using namespace packages. I searched my mailbox all across to find the discussion about that, but it seems it was done orally rather than on mail. Anyway, Fernando

Re: Re: Python Egg Guidelines across distros

2007-09-10 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To sum up, the problem is that setup tools is not designed to interact with the outside world. It does not provide an api for listing dependencies, does all kind of magic during the install, and insists for doi