On Jan 23, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> BTW2. This reminds me of the old PackageManager, Jack's plan about it >> was to provide a list of easy-to-install packages that are known >> to work on >> OSX. Much can, and has, been said about the actual implementation, >> but the idea >> is a good one. > > Exactly. The problem with it was the same as with many other > efforts to > do this kind of thing for python: the effort was put into building the > infrastructure, rather than building the packages. We need to make > it as > easy as possible to build the packages themselves, and and easy way > for > them to contribute them to somewhere people can find them. > > Really, downloading a mpkg from pythonmac.org and double clicking > on it > really is easy enough. All we need is an easy way to populate it.
Eggs and Cheese Shop already have that problem way solved. python setup.py register sdist bdist_egg upload -s That will register your package on Cheese Shop, build the egg and source distro, and upload it to Cheese Shop with GPG signatures. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
