Preparing release 2.3.1

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Thu Jul 19 08:55:27 CEST 2007


Ryan Lovett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:00:14PM +0200, Alain Spineux wrote:
>> Don't  forget your package is already included in some distribution
>> and then widely available.
> 
> Given that python-ldap is packaged by almost everyone, (excluding
> Microsoft, Apple, and Sun) what is there to gain with this binary
> distribution effort?

One benefit would be to provide a more recent version of python-ldap
than the distributor. But IMO this won't really work.

> Would anyone using Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora,
> SuSE, Mandriva, etc. require this project to distribute .egg files?

I don't think so. They have their own packaging system.

> I have no experience with using .eggs.

Nor have I.

Ciao, Michael.



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