As for terminology, you seem to suggest to use distribution where
Debian uses package. So Debian package would become Debian
distribution. This does not sound right, because Debian distribution
is the entire collection of packages that is released e.g. on a DVD-ROM.
I'll try to use project in
On 11/22/05, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually loading the module then requires decompressing
the code which takes a whole lot longer than just reading
a file from the file system.
In summary, things get slower when importing from ZIP files;
it really only makes sense for
Alle 11:08, mercoledì 23 novembre 2005, Martin v. Löwis ha scritto:
easy_deb implements this, so it seems to me it would be a simple matter
of running easy_deb to produce the .deb from the .egg. (Caveat: I have
not used easy_deb, but its author assures me that it is able to handle
the
Alle 07:17, mercoledì 23 novembre 2005, Bob Tanner ha scritto:
1. Do nothing, go with the status quo as documented in the Debian python
policy, which is no .egg's and unpackage everything into a sub-directory of
site-packages.
2. Investigate easydeb http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/easydeb/
On 11/23/05, Phillip J. Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 11:53 AM 11/23/2005 +1100, David Arnold wrote:
--Phillip == Phillip J Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Phillip This is a major advantage over developers who do not do this,
Phillip not only in developer effectivness, but also because
At 11:08 AM 11/23/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
As for terminology, you seem to suggest to use distribution where
Debian uses package. So Debian package would become Debian
distribution.
No, I'm fine with Debian package; I was using distribution in the sense
of distutils distribution,
Hi,
Phillip J. Eby:
I'm thinking that perhaps I should add an option like
'--single-version-externally-managed' to the install command so that you
can indicate that you are installing for the sake of an external package
manager that will manage conflicts and uninstallation needs. This
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
I was referring to how the distribution is *installed*. You don't use
things directly from a deb file, they have to be installed on the
system. When you install an egg, you must use one of the three forms,
or the system as a whole will not function.
That depends on
At 10:00 PM 11/23/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
I was referring to how the distribution is *installed*. You don't use
things directly from a deb file, they have to be installed on the
system. When you install an egg, you must use one of the three forms, or
the
Hi,
Phillip J. Eby:
I'm also debating whether this option should also require the --record
option, since there might otherwise be no way for an external packaging
tool to know which files and directories belong to the installed package.
Sure there is -- you install with --root (in Debian's
On 11/23/05, Phillip J. Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 04:53 PM 11/23/2005 +, Paul Moore wrote:
If there was a way of building a Windows installer that installed
packages in egg form, so I didn't have to use setup.py at all when
installing, just double-click on the installer, that would
--Paul == Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My point to David was simply that egg packaging in the .egg form is
more akin to Stow than to CPAN, so most of the flaws of CPAN are
not applicable to them.
Paul Sorry, I don't know what Stow is, so that doesn't clarify things
Paul to
At 11:17 PM 11/23/2005 +, Paul Moore wrote:
OK, I see it now. I need to reread your previous posts about the 3
layouts, as understanding those would probably give me the remaining
pieces of the puzzle that I need.
To summarize, the layouts are .egg file (1) or directory (2), which both
At 10:39 AM 11/24/2005 +1100, David Arnold wrote:
But I was hoping that I could help clarify the point of view of a Debian
user, by pointing out that there's at least some part of the Debian user
community that won't like installing .egg applications unless they're
sanely converted to .debs
At 12:25 AM 11/24/2005 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Phillip J. Eby:
I'm also debating whether this option should also require the --record
option, since there might otherwise be no way for an external packaging
tool to know which files and directories belong to the installed package.
Sure
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