On 4 Jun 2010, at 20:07, Ian Bicking wrote: SuSE sponsored the opensuse build server for that purpose: providing a build server insulated from the developers environment.
https://build.opensuse.org/ They provide yum/yast repositories so binaries can be downloaded automatically (like in the easy_xxx style). I have done some work with it in the recent past if somebody is interested: http://pyvm.sf.net Regards, Antonio Cavallo > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >So at the end, the end user would chose an installer that is > >compatible with these archive, and know how to install them. In other > >words, have ez_setup for example, run once for all at the Python > >level, and be THE installer. Or run a pip_setup or whatever. > > How would OS vendors get into the game? I could imagine that Ubuntu would > want to make an opinionated choice for our users, and maybe even set things up > so that packages are installed from our archives (as .deb packages) by > default. This would make things very easy for the majority of users, though > of course we'd have to allow experts to customize it to grab from the > Cheeseshop or use a different installer. > > I could see how a deb might make sense for an unqualified installation, i.e., > one where no specific version or location is indicated. *Probably* a specific > version would be okay, but the way deb archives work it seems like the > archive would usually be unable to satisfy the request. It would be > interesting if you could also hook into a deb generation script, and install > ad hoc packages as debs. > > This really isn't a system choice, but a where-the-package-is-installed > choice. If installing in /usr/lib/* then using the system package makes > sense. If installing anywhere else it doesn't make sense (home directory, > virtualenv environment, something ad hoc using install options). I wonder if > it would work best to control this through some distutils.cfg-like file > (distutils.cfg is terrible though), that would be looked up based on the > installation location. > > -- > Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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