Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:56 PM 11/22/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> >Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> >>>Debian should provide the packages, but not as eggs.
> >>
> >>For packages that only operate as eggs, and/or require their dependencies
> >>as eggs, you are stating a contradiction in terms. Eggs are not merely a
> >>distribution format, any more than Java .jar files are.
> >
> >So I should say
> >
> >"Debian should not provide eggs, period", since what Debian provides
> >are packages, and eggs are not?
>
> I don't understand you.
[...]
I can only assume Martin is reading 'package' to mean 'a unit of software
distribution' rather than 'a Python package'.
John
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