ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Lofty-Atmospheric Filesystem, v1.5

2009-08-01 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
er time is no longer funded by allmydata.com (see [13] for details). Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team Special acknowledgment goes to Brian Warner, whose superb engineering skills and dedication are primarily responsible for the Tahoe implementation, and significantly respons

how GNU stow is complementary rather than alternative to distutils

2009-05-10 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On May 10, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: If GNU stow solves all your problems, why do you want to use easy_install in the first place? That's a good question. The answer is that there are two separate jobs: building executables and putting them in a directory structure of the

Re: [Python-Dev] .pth files are evil

2009-05-10 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On May 9, 2009, at 9:39 AM, P.J. Eby wrote: It would be really straightforward, though, for someone to implement an easy_install variant that does this. Just invoke "easy_install -Zmaxd /some/tmpdir packagelist" to get a full set of unpacked .egg directories in /some/tmpdir, and then move