At 09:14 AM 9/8/2006 -0400, Kevin Dangoor wrote: >I've had quite a few complaints over the months from people who are >stuck behind firewalls and can't install TurboGears with easy_install >for whatever reason. This problem is somewhat compounded in cases >where the user may have a machine that has internet access, but isn't >the same platform as their deployment machine so they wouldn't even >get the right eggs to deploy with easy_install. > >What I ultimately want to end up with is a tarball that contains all >of the platform independent stuff, and then three tarballs for the >platform dependent stuff (win, mac, source). > >I know about easy_install -zmaxd, and that certainly helps... but > >1) it doesn't keep all of the eggs zipped up (because it sitll thinks >it's doing an install, instead of just a download)
Huh? -z should force it to never unzip eggs. Are you sure it's doing that? >2) it doesn't help with the three platform dependent parts > >Is this something zc.buildout can help with? I'm not certain what the >best way is to automate this process... If I were in your shoes, I'd certainly take a look at zc.buildout, although I don't know if it has everything you'll need. It would be nice, though, if you ended up with a tool that could be used to build a tarball bundle of any project, not just turbogears. Bonus points if the tarball contains everything in --single-version-externally-managed form, so somebody can just extract it and put it in a directory on PYTHONPATH. ;) (Note that to create the SVEM form of an egg, you just rename the EGG-INFO directory to package-version-pyver-platform.egg-info during extraction; an easy trick using setuptools.archive_util.) Oh, and extra extra bonus points if this thing can become something like "bdist_eggbundle" and was usable via setuptools. Then, you could just run something like "setup.py bdist_eggbundle --platform=XXX" to build one for each platform. :) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
