-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/4/9 Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/4/9 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com>: >>> Don't they? I have to admit that I'm baffled by how the features in >>> setuptools/eggs/easy_install all hang together. What about the magic >>> that creates executables from scripts? Entry points? Stuff like that. >>> Don't you need to use eggs to make them work? >> No....? Entry points work even if you have the source code in a tgz >> format and run setup.py install. The distribution format is not >> magical for that afaik. >> >>> So by what you're saying, eggs are a strict subset of >>> bdist_wininst, and so people should be distributing bdist_wininst >>> installers. But they aren't, so what gives? >> Nobody knows about it? > > Possibly :-( > >> But in any case, even if it would be a good idea to have every single >> Python package on the system listed in the Add/Remove programs list >> (Which I don't think it is, but that's a matter of taste, no logical >> arguments behind that), that would in practice mean that each and >> every package on PyPI must have a wininstaller, even if it is a >> pure-python package. That doesn't seem realistic to me. > > Personally, I'd be happy if every package that currently distributes > any form of Windows binaries, distributed a Windows installer. That's > about the same level of coverage as existed before setuptools > appeared, so I don't think that's impossible to achieve. I agree that > expecting *everything* to have a Windows installer is unreasonable.
Is there a technical reason why Windows users cannot build the installers themselves from "pure Python" sdists? I would rather distribute *no* binaries at all, myself, especially if "self-help" works. Stuff which requires a compiler is obviously a barrier for many Windows users: such packages normally need a Windows-savvy contributor to do the installer build, which often lags the 'sdist' release by a noticeable period. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ3i41+gerLs4ltQ4RAkhhAJ9zG5t8gSxVZcMzTCLe3ecNeVzRrwCffAGP f7TDGM1CMxXJtgPIihaZWyw= =zxkr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
