As a person who works as a packager with a debian based distribution (fink on Mac OSX) I am glad to see this discussion. I have no personal opinion about python eggs, but would really like to find a way to get some nice packages into the system and have been totally unable to figure out how to deal with eggs.
<br><br>I see the point of allowing developers to have multiple versions of packages when testing, but we definitely want to avoid that in the actual fink tree at all costs. It would be great to have a build system that can switch between what we need as stable distribution packagers and what people want/need in their local trees. My hope is that eggs in the long run can help the packagers track dependencies, but still let the packagers handle those dependencies.
<br><br>-kurt<br><a href="http://schwehr.org/blog">http://schwehr.org/blog</a><br><br>