Re: [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Schwarzburg
Hi, I would like to add a comment from the user perspective:
- the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and why I will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you listed), is that they break my installation (debian/ubuntu).
Toydist (or distutils) does not break anything as is. It would be like saying make breaks debian - it does not make much sense. As stated, one of the goal of giving up distutils is to make packaging by os vendors easier. In particular, by allowing to follow the FHS, and making things more consistent. It should be possible to automatically convert most packages to .deb (or .rpm) relatively easily. When you look at the numpy .deb package, most of the issues are distutils issues, and almost everything else can be done automatically. Note that even ignoring the windows problem, there are systems to do the kind of things I am talking about for linux-only systems (the opensuse build service), because distributions are not always really good at tracking fast changing softwares. IOW, traditional linux packaging has some issues as well. And anyway, nothing prevents debian or other OS vendors to package things as they want (as they do for R packages). David
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