-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 zooko wrote: >> It would probably be a lot easier to improve the platform string >> generation and comparison logic, as has been done for OS X. > > As PJE has mentioned, the intent is that the egg name should contain > enough information to decide if that egg will work on your platform. > For example, if it says "py2.5-win32" then you know it will work on > your Python 2.5 on 32-bit Windows, and if it says "py2.5-macosx-10.3- > ppc" then you know it will work on your PowerPC-based Mac with Python > 2.5. This can be used for example by easy_install to get a directory > listing of eggs and choose which one will work on the local platform > based solely on its filename. > > As PJE mentioned, it would be nice if this same technique worked on > Linux. > > However, it currently doesn't. Eggs built on Linux are named > something like py2.5-Linux-x86_64. To know whether such an egg would > actually work on your Linux system, you would also need to know > whether the Python was compiled with UCS-2 or UCS-4 internal unicode > representation, as well as what version of glibc you have. Is there > anything else that would need to be added into the egg name?
Better: just don't distribute binary eggs for Linux at all: - Developers have the tools (or can install them) to build from 'sdists'. - Systems without tools are "locked down", which means that they shouldn't be installing from public distributions anyway: the folks who run them should be able to build *private* eggs from 'sdists' which are known to work for their systems. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ4g3k+gerLs4ltQ4RAjepAKDK9/Y7Gq218CtUOw2KRtAkbLYcWACgtYF5 ogSEjrYyCWzliUo5/jHGm94= =4smt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
