eggs on distutils-sig
Hi everybody, as you may have noticed, the distutils-sig list has recently gotten flooded with setuptools (egg generator) related postings. While setuptools is a nice add-on for distutils, the discussions around it do not necessarily bring the distutils package itself forward. I'm wondering whether we should ask the eggs fans to start a new mailing list for egg support and development. What do you think ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 07 2005)
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Hello, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I'm wondering whether we should ask the eggs fans to start a new mailing list for egg support and development.
What do you think ?
I hope setuptools will become part of distutils in future. This should happen as fast as possible. Python 2.5 ? For me -1 for extra mailing list. bye by Wolfgang
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In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't really
seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving
distribution of Python modules and add-ons.
Kevin
On 12/7/05, M.-A. Lemburg
While setuptools is a nice add-on for distutils, the discussions around it do not necessarily bring the distutils package itself forward.
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
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In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't really seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving distribution of Python modules and add-ons.
Ditto. Setuptools is the most active distutils-related development right now, no surprise there's lots of messages on it. The volume is a *good* thing ;) -- Ian Bicking / ianb@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org
On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
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In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't really seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving distribution of Python modules and add-ons.
Ditto. Setuptools is the most active distutils-related development right now, no surprise there's lots of messages on it. The volume is a *good* thing ;)
I guess the concern is that the dominance of setuptools message is scaring away people with old-fashioned distutils questions. There haven't been many of those lately, and some of them seem to have received no response. I don't think that splitting the list in two is a solution, though. There's not enough traffic to warrant that (except for a brief spurt a week or so ago...) -- Steve -- -- EMail: stephen.langer@nist.gov Phone: (301) 975-5423 -- -- WWW: http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/Staff/SLanger/ Fax: (301) 990-4127 -- -- Mail: NIST; 100 Bureau Drive -- Stop 8910; Gaithersburg, Md 20899-8910 -- -- "I don't think this will work. That's why it's science." -- -- Naomi Langer, 17 Feb 2003 --
-1 me too It is better to keep distutils users/developers close to setuptools users/developers IMHO. Setuptools and distutils are really related and should be kept toghether. Vincenzo Alle 18:10, mercoledì 07 dicembre 2005, Ian Bicking ha scritto:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
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In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't really seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving distribution of Python modules and add-ons.
Ditto. Setuptools is the most active distutils-related development right now, no surprise there's lots of messages on it. The volume is a *good* thing ;)
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On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
Alle 18:10, mercoledì 07 dicembre 2005, Ian Bicking ha scritto:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
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In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't really seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving distribution of Python modules and add-ons.
Ditto. Setuptools is the most active distutils-related development right now, no surprise there's lots of messages on it. The volume is a *good* thing ;)
-1 me too
It is better to keep distutils users/developers close to setuptools users/developers IMHO. Setuptools and distutils are really related and should be kept toghether.
-1 also. As far I'm concerned, setuptools is distutils. -bob
Stephen Langer wrote:
On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
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In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't really seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving distribution of Python modules and add-ons. Ditto. Setuptools is the most active distutils-related development right now, no surprise there's lots of messages on it. The volume is a *good* thing ;)
I guess the concern is that the dominance of setuptools message is scaring away people with old-fashioned distutils questions. There haven't been many of those lately, and some of them seem to have received no response. I don't think that splitting the list in two is a solution, though. There's not enough traffic to warrant that (except for a brief spurt a week or so ago...)
Point taken. I would like to get the development and integration of important distribution formats going again. For me, bdist_deb, bdist_msi, bdist_nsis, bdist_inno as well as some other formats used by HP-UX and Solaris are more important than inventing yet another package manager. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 13 2005)
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Wolfgang Langner