At 09:35 AM 3/17/2010 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
Carl Meyer wrote:
Chris Withers wrote:
Okay, but I think you said at pycon that pip won't work with binary or
.egg distributions?
True; IIUC the plan is to eventually support some form of binary package
for Windows, but currently binary packages are not supported at all.
This is, quite frankly, ridiculous, and not just because of Windows.
So, say I produce a binary egg for mysqldb, pip's position appears
to be that I'm wrong, and I should have to make sure all the build
dependencies are present on my whole cluster of identical machines.
Same goes for lxml, and anything else with complex build dependencies.
Really, wtf? ;-)
Ian might not be here to say it, but if he were, I imagine he might
say, "patches welcome". ;-)
Seriously, though, I've posted samples here more than once of the
basic code needed to extract an .egg into a pip-style configuration,
and easy_install has code that will turn windows .exe files into .egg
files. Those parts aren't hard at all, relatively speaking.
What somebody would still need to write, are the pip-specific bits to
wrap all that in an installation process (including finding the
downloadables in the first place).
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