On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > 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.
I like the default to be one with the repo. Is it really painful for users to download the extra couple MB, or is it the principle of the thing? - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
