[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[konrad.hinsen at laposte.net]

On 03.10.2006, at 19:09, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>> Therefore, if it is possible to download and install eggs manually,
>> then I am sure there would be a client base for a GUI-based installer
>> associated with .egg files.
>
> It's still very atypical. You'd be coding a GUI client that three  
> people use.

I don't know. It is very hard to say what is "typical" without some  
hard data. In my immediate work environment I already see very  
different habits in installingh software, ranging from the PhD  
student who administrates his own PC as he likes to a large paranoid  
research lab where only one person is allowed to install software  
downloaded from the Internet.

> There are options with easy_install to do all of these things. I'm
> pretty sure there's an option to download packages without installing
> them that people use to download the eggs (e.g. for transfer to
> another machine or archival), and there's an option to use a
> filesystem path instead of the internet for installing packages.

That sounds fine. Still, there is always a need for GUI installers in  
my opinion.

> Any other problems you have you should report to distutils-sig so that
> they get fixed. It's definitely not going to get any less popular, so
> you're going to have to live with setuptools.

As long as there are no plans to abandon the standard distutils  
installation, I feel safe... and I can't find any other problems with  
setuptools before the one that blocks my packages (all of them) is  
solved.

Konrad.