Re: .egg in Debian summary?
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:09:52PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > 3. Using Phillip's .egg-info solution
> > > <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/2567>
>
> Well, since there's no progress, it's up to you as package maintainer to
> take the decision. The day when we have a real policy here, it will still
> be time to change things.
>
> My opinion is that we probably shouldn't distribute eggs but we must make
> it possible for our users to use them. So I think that the egg meta-info
> ought to be distributed either within a package directly (when the content
> of the egg matches the content of a single package) or as separate
> meta-packages depending on the various packages.
>
> From what I understood this is solution 3 above.
For what it's worth, I will be converting most of my packages that build
with setuptools to use option 3.
That is, of course, until there is some kind of consenus/decision.
--
Brian Sutherland
Metropolis - "it's the first movie with a robot. And she's a woman.
And she's EVIL!!"
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