Ian Bicking wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>> Finally, I think it's important to note that what Debian should or >>> should not use isn't really relevant to Debian's users, who will >>> quite simply need eggs for many packages. If Debian doesn't provide >>> them, the users will be forced to obtain them elsewhere. Over time, >>> the number of packages that users need in egg form will continue to >>> increase, and there will be an increasing number of users wanting to >>> know why Debian can't provide them. It's perfectly reasonable not to >>> redo existing Debian packages to use eggs, but for some packages, >>> *not* using eggs is simply not an option. >> >> >> >> Why should "eggs" be the only way to install a package ? >> >> Doesn't the standard "python setup.py install" work with >> eggified packages anymore (meaning that the package is >> installed as normal site-packages package) ? > > > Eggs give room for package metadata that doesn't exist otherwise. > Putting dependencies aside, this is functionality that simply doesn't > exist with the standard distutils installation. In the case of > FormEncode, it doesn't make use of any egg features (except that other > packages may want to depend on it using setuptools). In the case of > other frameworks -- including TurboGears (which I think is the ultimate > packaging goal here) -- the Egg metadata really is important, it's not > just used for dependencies.
Understood, but wouldn't it be reasonably possible to also install this meta-data into a standard site-packages package directory ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 22 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]