[Pythonmac-SIG] Marking the pre-built extensions as Intel-capable...

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> No, I mean that that URL won't directly list any packages.  It'll  
>> be a
>> listing of package lists and enough information to direct a newish  
>> user
>> to the right list.
>
> Then yes, that's a great idea. I am, as we e-speak, reworking those
> pages with a different structure now. I'm no web designer, but it  
> should
> give us something that someone can make prettieer if they want.
>
>> I'd certainly prefer eggs where possible, but transitionally we're
>> definitely going to need *.mpkgs.  Maybe both for now, and/or  
>> separate
>> pages for .mpkgs and binary eggs?
>
> What happens if you double-click on a *.egg?

Nothing yet, but it wouldn't be that hard to make a little app that  
associates itself with .egg

> I like that anyone with OS-X can figure out how to install from a  
> *.mpkg

Sure.  Ideally bdist_mpkg will produce *.mpkg installers that just  
contain eggs (for bootstrapping maybe), but that's not currently the  
case.

-bob