Ryan Tomayko wrote:
I'm still waiting to see how people maintaining python packages for Linux/BSD distributions feel about eggs. So far I don't think they've had to think about it a whole lot.
Hopefully this will make package generation much much easier -- the only issue I can see is the mismatch in the names of packages and dependencies (since generally package names are parameterized with "py-" or "python-" or somesuch). Actually putting the one file in its place should be easy, of course. Well... the other issue is that eggs support the installation of multiple versions simultaneously; for most packaging systems to support this the package name has to grow a version number too, which is rather awkward. -- Ian Bicking / ianb@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org