Ian Bicking wrote: > And now for a little pushback the other way -- as of this January > TurboGears has served up 100,000 egg files (I'm not sure what the window > for all those downloads is, but it hasn't been very long). Has it > occurred to you that they know something you don't about distribution?
oh, effbot.org is shipping lots of packages too. 100,000 may sound a lot to you, but there are surprisingly many python users out there these days... (if I had a $ for every download, etc, etc). > ElementTree would be among those egg files, so you should also consider > how many people *haven't* asked you about problems related to the > installation process. as you may have noticed, I tend to hang out on the TurboGears list, so yes, I'm well aware of their use of eggs. a couple of observations: - turbogears is hosting all eggs on their own site. - they're currently discussing whether to use stricter version requirements for individual components, to increase the chance that people end up using a combination that someone else has actually tested. - people keep reporting download problems and compatibility problems. it's not obvious to me that they hadn't been better off if they'd just shipped everything in a good old tarball... </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
