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

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Bicking
Josselin Mouette wrote: >>>Again, the ability to distribute it as a single package is good, >> >>What "single package" are you talking >>about? http://turbogears.org/download/ lists eggs and source packages for >>*10* different Python projects that it depends on, written by five >>different aut

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

2005-11-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 13:30 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit : > > You're reinventing the wheel. Really. This isn't a matter for the > > Windows world, as users are accustomed to various, broken tools to > > install stuff, and this one will probably be less broken than others. > > But MacOS and

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

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Bicking
Josselin Mouette wrote: >>If you patch my projects and remove the dependency checks, >>I won't care that much (though it might be a nuisance); but if the Egg >>metadata goes away, the projects will be broken. > > > Removing the dependency checks entirely and replacing them with Debian > dependenc

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

2005-11-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 09:08 PM 11/27/2005 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Removing the dependency checks entirely and replacing them with Debian dependencies is definitely an option, and I happen to prefer it slightly to the necessity of adding empty .egg-info files to all python module packages. Just a reminder: