Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. setuptools will download and install dependencies on the user's >behalf, without asking, by default.
It will *attempt* to download etc. etc. on the assumption that you have convenient, fast network connection. If you don't.... My experience is getting on for a couple of years old now, so things *may* have improved. But I was trying to install something (Kid, I think) from behind a coroporate firewall which was very picky about what outgoing connections were permissible and found trying to satisfy the dependencies a serious headache. I can't remember why it wasn't "just" a case of manually installing the dependencies; I do remember that the documentation was utterly inpenetrable and had no information on trouble-shooting as an installer. The egg format may well be OK, but in my experience setuptools is worse than nothing. A better option to a port of gems would be a toolset which made eggs usable. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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