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