At 11:32 AM 10/11/2007 -0700, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Andi Vajda wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> Also Debian-based distributions especially have gotten the dependencies
>> down something excellent. We already have a .deb installer for Chandler
>> but it lists just a couple of dependencies. On Gutsy Gibbon we could
>> perhaps go with system Python as well.
>
> We should move the build to this model on Ubuntu Linux first, where
> there is a decent package system - no such thing on leopard by default.
I am not sure I follow you. Exactly because Leopard does not have
package system I proposed the easy_install model. On Ubuntu we should
NOT do easy_install, because this should be covered by the package
system (unless easy_install somehow invoked the package manager on
Ubuntu). Yes, there really are python-m2crypto, python-thisandthat packages.
Please note that some system packagers (I don't know if Ubuntu is
one) *strip out* egg metadata from some system packages, which means
we can't properly detect that they are installed. So, just because
e.g. python-m2crypto is installed, doesn't necessarily mean that
easy_install won't try to download another copy, if it can't *find*
the one installed by the system.
This sort of behavior should be considered a bug in the system
packager, since as of Python 2.5 the distutils always include this
metadata for setuptools' benefit. However, as I said, some system
packagers strip it back out for reasons unknown.
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