At 11:16 AM 4/13/2009 -0700, Buck wrote:
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.
An sdist is a source distribution, usually in .tgz or .zip
form. Sdists contain certain well-defined directory layouts and
files. In particular:
* the entire contents are in a subdirectory named for the project and version
* that subdirectory contains a setup.py and a PKG-INFO
easy_install and pip can both find and retrieve sdists from PyPI and
install them, they just go about the actual installation process a
bit differently.
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