Re: [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Straw
Stefan Schwarzburg wrote: > Hi, > I would like to add a comment from the user perspective: > > - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and > why I will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you > listed), is that they break my installation (debian/ubuntu). The ma

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2009-12-28 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Schwarzburg wrote: > Hi, > I would like to add a comment from the user perspective: > > - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and why I > will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you listed), is that > they break my i

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2009-12-28 Thread Stefan Schwarzburg
Hi, I would like to add a comment from the user perspective: - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and why I will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you listed), is that they break my installation (debian/ubuntu). The main advantage of these kinds of linux

[matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

2009-12-28 Thread David Cournapeau
(warning, long post) Hi there, As some of you already know, the packaging and distributions of scientific python packages have been a constant source of frustration. Open source is about making it easy for anyone to use software how they see fit, and I think python packaging infrastructure has