On 28-mrt-2006, at 1:18, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:
That whole section really needs to be restructured to address the
common questions and issues people have regarding finding the right
packages for them.
great idea.
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
Before anyone starts coding, what should happen when you double-click
on an egg? I'd say this should bring up a dialog that allows you to
install the egg and possibly set some options. Installation will be done
using easy_install.
That sounds good to me.
Does
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
For casual users it is easier to install mpkgs, hence we'll need
mpkgs until someone writes the tool that allows one to double-click
on eggs to install them. I'm tempted to do so myself just to avoid
packaging stuff twice :-)
Mpkgs have another advantage: they allow
On 28-mrt-2006, at 18:26, Christopher Barker wrote:
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
For casual users it is easier to install mpkgs, hence we'll need
mpkgs until someone writes the tool that allows one to double-click
on eggs to install them. I'm tempted to do so myself just to avoid
packaging stuff
Couldn't we put a *.egg into a *.mpkg? and get the best of both worlds?
That would be my vote.
Bill
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I'm looking over the downloads page again, thinking about what we need
to do to support the Universal builds.
First off, the discussion last week about which packages will work
with it seems very important.
Who's got edit access to pythonmac.org?
Could someone please put a note on
On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Bill Janssen wrote:
I'm looking over the downloads page again, thinking about what we need
to do to support the Universal builds.
First off, the discussion last week about which packages will work
with it seems very important.
Who's got edit access to
Bob Ippolito wrote:
No, I mean that that URL won't directly list any packages. It'll be a
listing of package lists and enough information to direct a newish user
to the right list.
Then yes, that's a great idea. I am, as we e-speak, reworking those
pages with a different structure now.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:00:07PM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
What happens if you double-click on a *.egg?
That'd be an incredibly cool utility to have, and a lot easier to
write than something like PackageManager.
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Could someone please put a note on http://pythonmac.org/packages/ to
say that the packages listed there are all PPC-only?
Done
Looks good, thanks.
Bill
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I'd certainly prefer eggs where possible, but transitionally we're
definitely going to need *.mpkgs. Maybe both for now, and/or separate
pages for .mpkgs and binary eggs?
What happens if you double-click on a *.egg?
I like that anyone with OS-X can figure out how to install from a
On Mar 27, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
Christopher Barker wrote:
Then yes, that's a great idea. I am, as we e-speak, reworking
those pages with a different structure now. I'm no web designer,
but it should give us something that someone can make prettier if
they want.
On Mar 27, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:
No, I mean that that URL won't directly list any packages. It'll
be a
listing of package lists and enough information to direct a newish
user
to the right list.
Then yes, that's a great idea. I am, as we
On Mar 27, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
I'd certainly prefer eggs where possible, but transitionally we're
definitely going to need *.mpkgs. Maybe both for now, and/or
separate
pages for .mpkgs and binary eggs?
What happens if you double-click on a *.egg?
I like that anyone
Without any experience with eggs (I believe that they are another
Phillip Eby brainstorm?), can I suggest that a standard command-line
Yep, they are.
Is there a specification for the egg format?
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
They're zipfiles containing additional
On 28-mrt-2006, at 3:01, Nicholas Riley wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:00:07PM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
What happens if you double-click on a *.egg?
That'd be an incredibly cool utility to have, and a lot easier to
write than something like PackageManager.
Before anyone starts
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