Harry:
For some Free Software Python packages that I publish [1, 2, 3], I've
been trying to gain the benefits of eggs while also making the
resulting packages transparently useful to folks like you.
(You can follow along here: [4].)
One thing I've accomplished is figuring out how to install a Py
Harry George wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes:
>> Not sure how this differs significantly "from running a repository",
>> in the sense I use it above.
>>
>>
>> John
>
> Significant differences:
>
> "depot": Place(s) where tarballs can be stored, and can then be
> reached via http.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes:
> Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes:
> [...]
>>> 2. You can run your own private egg repository. IIRC, it's as simple
>>> as a directory of eggs and a plain old web server with directory
>>> listings turned o
Fuzzyman wrote:
>
> I understand your situation and I have some misgivings myself. It
> reminds me of the time when I worked in a 'corporate environment' and
> I was trying to install a Perl application to get round the internet
> blocking.
>
> The application (localproxy - very good) was *intended
Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> This is a possibility. The tarballs can be seen in a directory
> listing. They are in different subdirs (for different "bundles" of
> functionality), so I'll need -f to look several places.
One possibilit
On Jun 21, 1:10 pm, Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...at least around here.
>
> I run a corporate Open Source Software Toolkit, which makes hundreds
> of libraries and apps available to thousands of technical employees.
> The rules are that a) a very few authorized downloaders obtain
> t
Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes:
[...]
>> 2. You can run your own private egg repository. IIRC, it's as simple
>> as a directory of eggs and a plain old web server with directory
>> listings turned on. You then run easy_install -f URL package_name
On Jun 21, 8:10 am, Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip description of unacceptable behaviors]
> These are unacceptable behaviors. I am therefore dropping ZODB3
If you have bugs to report against ZODB, I sugest posting to zodb-dev
(http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev).
--
Ben
On 21 Jun., 14:10, Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've asked before, and I'll ask again: If you are doing a Python
> project, please make a self-sufficient tarball available as well.
Alomost all projects I know of that provide eggs, also have a CVS or
SVN repository. Just download a tag
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
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry George wrote:
> > ...at least around here.
> >
> > I run a corporate Open Source Software Toolkit, which makes hundreds
> > of libraries and apps available to thousands of technical employees.
> > The rules are that a) a very few authorized download
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes:
> Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...]
> > These are unacceptable behaviors. I am therefore dropping ZODB3, and
> > am considering dropping TurboGears and ZSI. If the egg paradigm
> > spreads, yet more packages will be dropped (or will never ge
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
> paradigm. The tarballs are incomplete in the first plac
Harry George wrote:
> ...at least around here.
>
> I run a corporate Open Source Software Toolkit, which makes hundreds
> of libraries and apps available to thousands of technical employees.
> The rules are that a) a very few authorized downloaders obtain
> tarballs and put them in a depot and b)
Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> These are unacceptable behaviors. I am therefore dropping ZODB3, and
> am considering dropping TurboGears and ZSI. If the egg paradigm
> spreads, yet more packages will be dropped (or will never get a chance
> to compete for addition).
>
> I've as
...at least around here.
I run a corporate Open Source Software Toolkit, which makes hundreds
of libraries and apps available to thousands of technical employees.
The rules are that a) a very few authorized downloaders obtain
tarballs and put them in a depot and b) other users get tarballs from
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