Hi,
jholg@gmx.de wrote: [snip useful thoughts]
Btw I for one don't like eggs; I like to package libraries in my platform package format. Anyone know about a tool to convert an egg to a Sun package?
Converting eggs themselves, I don't know. Distutils/setuptools is able however is pluggable and should have the information to build all kinds of package formats, including tarballs, eggs, and rpms. This would be the right area to look into to get native package support. [...]
I happen to have a bdist_sunpkg distutils command class that does the job. Still waiting for my company to allow me to officially contribute that to Python, what with the agreement you have to sign these days. Until then, it's python patch item 1589266 ;-): https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1589266&group_id=5470 However, the current egg-shipped stuff using setuptools tends to clutter things with egg-related stuff I'd rather not want. Happened with lxml at least, I now have an unnecessary lxml-1.2.1-py2.4.egg-info directory that I can't seem to get rid of :-) While the egg thing might have maximum ease-of-use for a lot of people, this can be different if you are a) not on linux/win (I'm on sparc solaris) b) not directly connected to the web with your workstation And I for one do not like the easy_install notion of starting to transparently download stuff. Thanks for you info, Holger -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail