Re: Setuptools, build and install dependencies (was: eggs considered harmful)

Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Historically, python packages played well in this context. Install > > was a simple download, untar, setup.py build/install. > > > > Eggs and with other setuptools-inspired install processes break this > > pa

Setuptools, build and install dependencies (was: eggs considered harmful)

Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Historically, python packages played well in this context. Install > was a simple download, untar, setup.py build/install. > > Eggs and with other setuptools-inspired install processes break this > paradigm. The tarballs are incomplete in the first plac