On Apr 12, 8:51 am, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > zooko wrote: > >> It would probably be a lot easier to improve the platform string > >> generation and comparison logic, as has been done for OS X. > > > However, it (egg naming scheme on Linux) currently doesn't. > > Eggs built on Linux are named something like py2.5-Linux-x86_64. > > ... > > Better: just don't distribute binary eggs for Linux at all: > > - Developers have the tools (or can install them) to build from > 'sdists'. > > - Systems without tools are "locked down", which means that they > shouldn't be installing from public distributions anyway: > the folks who run them should be able to build *private* eggs > from 'sdists' which are known to work for their systems. > > Tres.
I have no clue what you mean by 'sdists'. Is this a widely-known thing? A URL to an example would be sufficient. Thanks, --Buck _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
