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From: Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python
Subject: Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python  modules
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:20:01 +0200
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On September 26, 2015 at 5:30:35 AM, Paul Wise (pabs@debian.org) wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 19:25 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> 
> > Because the way Python packaging currently is and historically has
> > been, binary packages are not something that is widely available or
> > viable.
> 
> Hmm, I thought eggs have been around for ages (seems about 8 years)?
> 

Eggs are problematic and hardly anyone publishes them.

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