Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-11-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:21 AM 11/27/2008 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Is there any value in shipping these files when not delivering as Eggs, or could they safely be just removed? They cannot safely be removed, for several reasons, including: 1. They identify the installed package so that: a) code which looks fo

Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-11-27 Thread Nathan Yergler
You should probably leave them intact -- they add metadata about the packages and allow setuptools/easy_install/pkg_resources/etc to use those installed packages when resolving dependencies. Nathan On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last October, I sent

[Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-11-27 Thread Brian Cameron
Last October, I sent an email to this list asking how to install modules which use setuputils so that modules are shipped in a way that is compatible with Solaris packaging. It was recommended to me to run "setup.py install" with the "--root=/foo" argument and this causes the files to be install

Re: [Distutils] broken messages from the mailing list

2008-11-27 Thread Maurits van Rees
Marius Gedminas, on 2008-11-25: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:34:24PM +0100, Jan Matejek wrote: >> Is it just me, or are the messages that come in lately broken right in >> the middle of headers? there's a stray "\n" and it appears that a part >> of the following line is missing too. Because of that

Re: [Distutils] setuptools/buildout: why only one index server configurable

2008-11-27 Thread Andreas Jung
On 27.11.2008 13:32 Uhr, Chris Withers wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: in buildout I can define only one alternative index server using 'index = http://pypi.zopyx.com'. Now we are in the situation where we are running two internal index servers (one for our own internal packages and one PyPI mirror).

Re: [Distutils] setuptools/buildout: why only one index server configurable

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Withers
Andreas Jung wrote: in buildout I can define only one alternative index server using 'index = http://pypi.zopyx.com'. Now we are in the situation where we are running two internal index servers (one for our own internal packages and one PyPI mirror). Is there some reason for this limitation? I