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

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/22/05, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually loading the module then requires decompressing > the code which takes a whole lot longer than just reading > a file from the file system. > > In summary, things get slower when importing from ZIP files; > it really only makes sense fo

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

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/23/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:53 AM 11/23/2005 +1100, David Arnold wrote: > >-->"Phillip" == Phillip J Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Phillip> This is a major advantage over developers who do not do this, > > Phillip> not only in developer effectivness,

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

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/23/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:53 PM 11/23/2005 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > >If there was a way of building a Windows installer that installed > >packages in "egg" form, so I didn't have to use setup.py at all when > >inst

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

2005-11-24 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/23/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I think the better long-term approach is more likely to be tools > like easy_deb that wrap easy_install. "Better" here meaning that it can > save the system packager work, because it can handle finding and fetching > and building i

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

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/25/05, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On thing about this worried me; > > If TurboGears depends on an "egg'ed" ElementTree, what happens if a > system has ElementTree installed as a non-egg package? Does installing > TurboGears as an egg inside a Debian package require also insta

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

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/25/05, Vincenzo Di Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me, this sucks. Sorry, Philip, I know *why* you can't introspect a > > non-egg ElementTree well enough to avoid this, but it still sucks. > > Please read > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-November/005520.html > htt

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

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/25/05, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry... that's what I meant; don't deb an egg... install it as an egg, > outside of the Debian package management system. As an egg, it is under > development and not ready for release as a deb. When the software is > ready for release, stri

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

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/25/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:34 AM 11/25/2005 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > >- what would happen if I downloaded the TurboGears egg and just put it > >on sys.path - no easy_install or whatever?) > > You could import stuff from it, but

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

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Moore
On 11/25/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:28 AM 11/25/2005 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >Actually, I'm increasingly tempted to PEP the idea of a > >name-version.pkg-info file being installed alongside the code as a standard > >Python distutils feature. This discussion has ma

Re: [Distutils] Egg support for system packages (including bdist_wininst)

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Moore
On 12/15/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For persons like Paul Moore who want to wrap egg-based packages in Windows > installers, note that you can now take a setuptools-based package's source > and run "setup.py bdist_wininst" and it will build a usa