[Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 25 Mar, 2008, at 20:11, Alexander Michael wrote:
> You can see Floris Bruynooghe's response
> earlier in the thread, but basically it is an even harder problem to
> create packages for every major platform automatically than it is to
> create a simple database of installed packages that plays well with
> every major package manager.

Why is that?  Looking in from the peanut gallery the major problem
with automaticly creating OS packages is political, in that some  
packagers
don't believe that developers could create valid OS packages.

The technical issues seem small compared to that.

Ronald
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