[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ian Bicking wrote:

> And now for a little pushback the other way -- as of this January
> TurboGears has served up 100,000 egg files (I'm not sure what the window
> for all those downloads is, but it hasn't been very long).  Has it
> occurred to you that they know something you don't about distribution?

oh, effbot.org is shipping lots of packages too.  100,000 may sound a
lot to you, but there are surprisingly many python users out there these
days... (if I had a $ for every download, etc, etc).

> ElementTree would be among those egg files, so you should also consider
> how many people *haven't* asked you about problems related to the
> installation process.

as you may have noticed, I tend to hang out on the TurboGears list, so yes,
I'm well aware of their use of eggs.  a couple of observations:

- turbogears is hosting all eggs on their own site.

- they're currently discussing whether to use stricter version requirements
for individual components, to increase the chance that people end up using
a combination that someone else has actually tested.

- people keep reporting download problems and compatibility problems.

it's not obvious to me that they hadn't been better off if they'd just shipped
everything in a good old tarball...

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