Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> writes: > 2009/11/6 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: > > Not for people using easy_install or its derivatives (like pip and > > buildout). easy_install-based tools work as easily with source as > > binaries.
“binary package” != “setuptools egg”. At least, I didn't take the parent of P.J.'s post to mean that. > Right. And untaring and running setup.py install is not exactly a > massive amount of work either. :) Time spent installing is only part of the cost. Neither of thosr options cooperate with the operating system's *own* package management. Which causes much frustration and wasted time for the user when trying to later interact with the installed package in some way (use another package that depends on it, detect whether its installed, remove it reliably, etc.). That's when a “binary package”, built by an operating system vendor or some other trusted third party, is much less effort over time; and many users know this, and will opt for such packages by preference. -- \ “Members of the general public commonly find copyright rules | `\ implausible, and simply disbelieve them.” —Jessica Litman, | _o__) _Digital Copyright_ | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
