Hi Stephen, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:59:18AM +0100, Stephen Pascoe wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what you find so annoying about the egg format because for me it's the one part of the setuptools system that I would keep.
I suppose the best answer is to point you to this thread: http://teams.debian.net/lurker/message/20070904.152810.4f84c924.fr.html There is also useful information at: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPythonFAQ and http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ but I would not bet on the latter being up to date. Baseline is "no problem with providing egg-info metadata, but pretty please Python developers, do not code *for* distutils/setuptools/etc. Just find a way to provide useful dependency/meta information then let your users choose how they install your code on *their* system". -- Nicolas Chauvat logilab.fr - services en informatique scientifique et gestion de connaissances