At 03:03 PM 4/9/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
2009/4/9 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com>:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> An
>> egg->bdist_wininst converter would fix this issue. As would everyone
>> standardising on bdist_wininst (which, as per the previous message,
>> appears to be prefectly feasible given that bdist_wininst seems to be
>> a strict superset of egg...)
>
> I don't think this is true. I don't think bdist_wininst supports the
> buildout use case where I want to install multiple versions of multiple
> packages in different (or even the same) directory. This is a critical use
> case for Zope/Plone apps.
OK, I'm making that statement based on some earlier comments. I've
probably misunderstood them.
But I thought easy_install could take a bdist_wininst installer and
use it to make an egg?
Yes, it can.
You could also, in principle, reverse the process. However, the
resulting bdist_wininst wouldn't support multiple versions, because
the bdist_wininst infrastructure doesn't support that.
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