[Pythonmac-SIG] Package installation

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:47 PM, konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:

>> couldn't be determined).  Another low-tech solution would be to start 
>> a wiki page with known latest versions, urls to download the latest 
>> versions, and
>
> Something better already exists, the Python Package Index. 
> Unfortunately many packages are not in it, and others are listed with 
> outdated versions.
>
> That of course points to the major problem of all attempts at handling 
> Python packages: acceptance. There even still packages around that 
> don't use distutils.

Yup, there are.  PyKQueue is/was one of them!  The Makefile didn't even 
work on Mac OS X.  I submitted a setup.py to the maintainer that does 
work on OS X (and presumably still FreeBSD) just this weekend.

-bob