On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:19:45PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:40:36AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: >> >> >> Why would someone create a binary release when >> >> >> it's pure Python ? >> >> > >> >> > I wish I knew. But people do - mostly egg format files. But I think >> >> > this is partly because of the confusion between >> >> > egg-as-distribution-format vs egg-as-directly-usable-object that PJE >> >> > alludes to in his emails. >> >> >> >> I sometimes create platform-independent eggs to indicate a Python-version >> >> dependency. Until d2/p, there was no other way to indicate dependence >> >> on a particular Python version. >> > >> > Except for Trove classifiers, of course: >> > >> > 'Programming Language :: Python', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1', >> > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2', >> > >> > Or do I misunderstand your requirements? >> >> None of the tools use Trove classifiers to make decisions >> about what to download afaik. > > Do they make decisions based on the presence of versioned .egg files? > I'd expect the tools to fall back to the sdist if they couldn't find an > .egg for a particular Python version. If I'm right, then uploading > binary eggs doesn't help either -- unless you refrain from uploading the > sdist to PyPI?
That's exactly what I do. (I don't do this very often.) Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
