On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:38 AM, Stephen Thorne wrote: > On 2011-04-07, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: >> Because, frankly, Python installation tools REALLY REALLY SHOULD be >> able to install Python files into Python packages. I'm not sure I can >> make any other assertions quite so strongly. I'm pretty sure that >> this is a problem that more than one project is interested in solving. >> No other projects are interested in installing '.twistd' files though, >> I can assure you of that :). > > This is entirely wrong. Python installation tools are barely capable of > putting entire existing working python packages into a directory that if > you mumble rhymes with "kite smackages".
This is why I said "should". Python installation tools are basically incapable of anything. And yet. My point is that it's hard enough to advocate for bugs to be fixed in installing .py files; let's focus on that, and avoid installing other stuff. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
