[Distutils] How to make easy_install handle platlibs?

[Buck]

On Apr 12, 8:51 am, Tres Seaver <tsea... at palladion.com> wrote:
> zooko wrote:
> >> It would probably be a lot easier to improve the platform string  
> >> generation and comparison logic, as has been done for OS X.
>
> > 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.

Thanks,
--Buck