Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 22:49 -0500, Phillip J. Eby a écrit : Just a reminder: without the .egg-info metadata (or something similar), we aren't fulfilling one of the primary use cases, which is Debian users wanting their bleeding-edge installs to not duplicate stable packages. This

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:45 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 16:26 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit : [...] easy_install works, right now, for these packages. There are some outstanding issues, and those issues can probably be resolved in easy_install, without any

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 08:57 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 10:29 AM 11/25/2005 +, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 01:33 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: [...] In the case where the user is *not* using easy_install, then all dependencies will be met by system packages, and the

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Bicking
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 16:26 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit : No one is forcing Debian to package any of these. Of course you are forcing Debian to package these. As long as your projects have enough users, someone will want to build a Debian package. The whole

Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Tanner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Starting a separate thread from the formencode as .egg in Debian ?? discussion since this issue is internal to Debian and I don't want DD's to beat-up upstream development anymore. :-) Good or bad python .egg's are here to stay. Following the

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 13:51 -0600, Bob Tanner a écrit : IF Debian decides -not- to support .egg's a few python code bases (modules, applications, etc) will break. Looking into the future more python code bases will move to .egg so the number of broken code bases will only increase.

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 11:27 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit : That's okay; I'll just tell my users to use it when Debian packages are not available (which is the case for the majority of Python libraries, and probably always will be unless libraries are automatically packaged).

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Martin Skøtt
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:51:26PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: Starting a separate thread from the formencode as .egg in Debian ?? discussion since this issue is internal to Debian and I don't want DD's to beat-up upstream development anymore. :-) Thank you for bringing this up. The beating of

Re: Python .egg support in Debian

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Tanner
On Monday 28 November 2005 03:22 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: You are completely misunderstanding the issue. There can be no such thing as Debian support for eggs. There can only be some Debian packages of eggified software. And there will be, as some developers will want to make them.

Re: [Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

2005-11-28 Thread Chad Walstrom
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creating debs easily is a good idea if done correctly, but only for packages that will eventually enter the archive. It's a very bad idea to encourage people to build their own versions of Debian packages. It would lead to a horrible cluttering of