[Distutils] problem with http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup.py

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> we have dropped the releases of egg format in 0.6.1 for various reasons,
>> Huh? Where are these reasons documented?
> 
> Because besides zc.buildout bootstraping, the distribute_setup.py is not be
> considered as part of the code API.

What does that have to do with egg format releases of the 0.6 branch?

> This is not a compatibility issue. The code stays unchanged. This is just
> a change in the way we release this project: no more binary releases
> in bdist_egg format
> that is.  Just a plain source release.

Setuptools is available as an egg, so if you want 100% backwards 
compatability, then distribute needs to be too...

>>> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/buildout-distribute/
>> How about working on the buildout branch I'm working on rather than doing
>> stuff separately all the time?
> 
> Because it's not the zc.buildout project. It's a project that creates
> a zc.buildout
> environment using distribute, like what virtualenv-distribute does with
> virtualenv.

*sigh*

How many forks of how many projects do you want?

Chris

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