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Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system.

From Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
Subject Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system.
Date 2012-01-19 09:56 +0100
Organization Nautilus Entertainments
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John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> writes:

> "egg" files are usually more trouble than they're worth.

I find it really funny you say so, just after another thread where you
proved yourself unable to come up with a working Python environment
lacking an already packaged RPM of version 2.7...

I know "egg" are not standard, but these days are still the only way to
install Python-related stuff that includes precompiled stuff, be it a
Python module implemented in C, or a Pyjamas application, or simply
.mo files containing gettext translations... *without* forcing the
recipient to install all the needed "compiler chains".

I really hope the distribute2 toolset will provide such nice capability.

ciao, lele.
--
nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri
real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
lele@metapensiero.it  |                 -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.

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Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-01-18 10:24 -0800
  Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 12:26 -0800
  Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2012-01-19 09:56 +0100
    Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-01-19 09:05 -0800
      Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 17:21 +0000
      Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 09:20 -0700
      Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2012-01-22 10:38 +0100
  Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 00:50 +0000

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