Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: [...] >> 2. You can run your own private egg repository. IIRC, it's as simple >> as a directory of eggs and a plain old web server with directory >> listings turned on. You then run easy_install -f URL package_name >> instead of easy_install package_name . The distutils-sig archives >> will have more on this. > > Again, not speaking for anyone else: With 500 OSS packages, all of > which play by the same tarball rules, we don't have resources to > handle eggs differently.
You said earlier: > The rules are that a) a very few authorized downloaders obtain > tarballs and put them in a depot and b) other users get tarballs from > the depot and build from source. Not sure how this differs significantly "from running a repository", in the sense I use it above. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
