On Jul 28, 2010, at 04:37 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: >By never, ever, ever distributing binary eggs, especially for Linux. >An sdist is nearly always consumable there, with the exception of >deliberately damaged (no tools) lockdown environments: in such >environments, the dungeonmaster knows exactly which libC / Python is >targeted, and can build / install the binary eggs (privately, please!).
Right, and IME, admins of those locked down systems aren't about to install *anything* from the Cheeseshop anyway. :) They really really prefer distribution packages (well, on platforms that have a packaging system ;). -Barry
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