Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the source
> download (hence the "upload").
>
> The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools,
Do you know of a package I can find on cheeseshop that is using
setuptools? I'd like to get a sense of what features that offers.
> so it's no
> surprise that they don't take advantage of these new features that
> aren't in distutils.
Well, matplotlib has an egg on the sourceforge download site, and NumPy
is putting its include files in a odd place specifically to accommodate
ssetuptools, and neither of those have eggs on cheeseshop. I guess
setuptools really hasn't caught on yet. but it does seem to be gaining a
lot of momentum, so I'm hopeful.
> Someone needs to convince the maintainers of the
> packages that you use that they should be using setuptools, at least
> for distribution (but not necessarily as a requirement for installation).
>
>> Frankly, that doesn't do any more for me than Google, at least for
>> packages I already know the name of.
>
> That's orthogonal.
That was based on the fact that I just got pointed back to the project's
primary download site anyway, that's usually not hard to find (for a
project I know about anyway). If the eggs were available directly on
Cheeseshop, then it would be better.
>> What that tells me is that there is a need for an OS-X package (or egg)
>> repository on pythonmac.
>
> I'm not at all convinced on that point.
The reason we've ever needed it hasn't changed: most package maintainers
don't build packages for OS-X. The Mac community has always had to do
that itself for most packages. The only exception for the packages I use
is wxPython. (and Robin is looking into eggs)
If we can't get package maintainers to build OS-X compatible eggs, what
good does cheese shop do?
It's also really nice to have one-stop shopping for OS-X Python packages.
Another issue I wonder about is all the possible combinations of OS-X
and Python versions that we're dealing with. Do they all need a separate
egg?
-Chris
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