[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions
Ned Deily
nad at acm.org
Mon Oct 31 19:36:43 CET 2011
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Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 October 2011 18:04, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> > Has anyone analyzed the current packages on PyPI to see how many provide
> > binary distributions and in what format?
>
> A very quick and dirty check:
>
> dmg: 5
> rpm: 12
> msi: 23
> dumb: 132
> wininst: 364
> egg: 2570
>
> That's number of packages with binary distributions in that format.
> It's hard to be sure about egg distributions, as many of these could
> be pure-python (there's no way I know, from the PyPI metadata, to
> check this).
Thanks. If you have access to the egg file name, you should be able to
tell. AFAIK, eggs with extension modules include the Distutils platform
name in the file name preceded by a '-', so '-linux', '-win32',
'-macosx' for the main ones. Pure python eggs do not contain a platform
name. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyinterval/ is a random example of
the former.
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Ned Deily,
nad at acm.org
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