2009/11/6 Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: > Time spent installing is only part of the cost. Neither of thosr options > cooperate with the operating system's *own* package management.
Well, do to THAT you have to make packages for that systems own package management, and that's a completely different issue, with it's own set of problems, religions and wars. > That's when a “binary package” > Using the word "binary package" to mean a, 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. For end user applications, sure. It has not been specified if we are talking about and end-user application that should have an installer etc. Note that this discussion started with bundling distribute so it was imported from third_party.setuptools instead of just setuptools. A fairly specific question. Then the discussion suddenly was about project that had long compile times. And now about making distro-specific distributions for easy installation. This is a whole different ballgame from where the discussion started. Arguments are being made against statements by switching the context in which the question is being made. That's not a constructive type of discussion. There is nothing from the initial question that indicates that it's a big project for end users with loads of C-code in it. Let's not make the issue more complicated than it already is. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
