On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
I personally, as a consumer of other people's software, prefer to acquire their packages as sdist .tar.gz's or as .eggs on all platforms, including Windows, which I use regularly. So your and my preferences as a consumer of packages differ on this.
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If I have to guess at your reasons, my assumption would be: - Consistent means of installing on all platforms
This is a big one. Another is that try to use command-line interfaces instead of GUIs whenever possible. I can, for example, script installation and run the same script on all my platforms, or schedule the script on all my platforms using buildbot. Another is that I can uninstall with "rm", which I greatly prefer over the Windows Add/Remove programs interface. Another is that if I easy_install a *different* package which requires that package, then the .egg can be automatically installed with no manual effort on my part.
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