On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Tres Seaver wrote: > What is the advantage of such a 'noarch' egg over just distributing > 'sdist' tarballs (AKA "source eggs")? Setuptools / easy_install is > happy to consume them, and I would much rather work with them.
That's an excellent point. Honestly, the only reason I ever notice this arch question is because the setuptools egg itself (for bootstrapping with ez_setup.py) has a pyX.Y in it, and this makes it cost an extra 600 KB if I want to bundle setuptools with my app. I can solve this easily enough by hacking my copy of ez_setup.py to load a setuptools egg without an X.Y in its name, though... ;-) So I withdraw my interest in no-arch eggs, because you've reminded me that I strongly prefer source eggs. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
