At 11:16 AM 4/13/2009 -0700, Buck wrote:

On Apr 12, 8:51 am, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote:

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zooko wrote:

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It would probably be a lot easier to improve the platform string generation and comparison logic, as has been done for OS X.

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However, it (egg naming scheme on Linux) currently doesn't. Eggs built on Linux are named something like py2.5-Linux-x86_64. ...

Better: just don't distribute binary eggs for Linux at all:

- Developers have the tools (or can install them) to build from 'sdists'.

- Systems without tools are "locked down", which means that they shouldn't be installing from public distributions anyway: the folks who run them should be able to build *private* eggs from 'sdists' which are known to work for their systems.

Tres.

I have no clue what you mean by 'sdists'. Is this a widely-known thing? A URL to an example would be sufficient.

An sdist is a source distribution, usually in .tgz or .zip form. Sdists contain certain well-defined directory layouts and files. In particular: * the entire contents are in a subdirectory named for the project and version * that subdirectory contains a setup.py and a PKG-INFO easy_install and pip can both find and retrieve sdists from PyPI and install them, they just go about the actual installation process a bit differently.