On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 09:55 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Notice that the existence of eggs has already allowed buildout, virtualenv, > > and pyinstall to appear. But eggs don't handle installing tests or > > documentation, and they have to be prebuilt by platform. An improved sdist > > format, on the other hand, with standardized layout and metadata would > > address all of those issues. > > Beware however of too large a scope -- the project may crumble under > its ambition, or be mired in border conflicts with > language-independent distribution management tools like RPM or the > Debian/Ubuntu tools.
Would it be worth bringing in people from those groups to help guide its growth? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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