On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> >> You are talking here about bdist_rpm and not about a tool that >> would take >> a Python package distributed as an egg file and convert the egg to >> an rpm >> or a deb. Unfortunately, some Python packagers are beginning to >> limit >> their focus only to egg distribution. That creates a problem for >> users >> who have native operating system package management. > > That is indeed a problem -- but it's a social one, not a technical > one. It's trivial for the publisher of an egg to change their > command line from "setup.py bdist_egg upload" to "setup.py sdist > bdist_egg upload", as soon as their users (politely) request that > they do so.
In general, it would be good if eggs came with .py files by default instead of .pyc files. I've opened a ticket on my setuptools trac about this proposal: http://allmydata.org/trac/setuptools/ticket/5 # binary eggs should come with .py files by default, rather than .pyc files Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ 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
