Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: >> Lisandro Dalcin wrote: >> >>> Sorry, can't resist... Could you tell me why a developer would be >>> attracted by this? To make use of ".hg", they need to have mercurial, >>> then... Do you think any DEVELOPER will find it cumbersome to do "hg >>> clone http://hg.cython.org/cython"; ?? >> Also I think it's a bit impolite to force all the people >> who aren't developers to download twice as much data as >> they're going to use. > > Moreover, I frequently use easy_install when I need a package in a > hurry. In such cases, tarball releases are downloaded, the package > installed, and next the tarball is just thrown away...
What about shipping two distributions from PyPI then? One called "Cython" that contains only the installable sources, and one called "Cython-complete" that easy_install will not use due to its different name, and that additionally contains the .hg directory. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
