Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Harry George wrote:
>>
>>> We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order,
>>> and expect the next package to find them. "configure" does this for
>>> hundreds of packages. cmake, scons, a
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry George wrote:
>
>> We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order,
>> and expect the next package to find them. "configure" does this for
>> hundreds of packages. cmake, scons, and others also tackle this
>> problem. Python's o
Harry George wrote:
> We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order,
> and expect the next package to find them. "configure" does this for
> hundreds of packages. cmake, scons, and others also tackle this
> problem. Python's old setup.py seems to be able to do it.
No, ge
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Historically, python packages played well in this context. Install
> > was a simple download, untar, setup.py build/install.
> >
> > Eggs and with other setuptools-inspired install processes break this
> > pa
