On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 10:01 -0700, zooko wrote: > They both agreed that it made perfect sense. I told one of them > about the alternate proposal to define a new database file to > contain > a list of installed packages, and he sighed and rolled his eyes and > said "So they are planning to reinvent apt!".
When I wear my sysadmin hat, eggs become a nuisance. They are not listed in the system packages; if zipped they won't work when the apache user tries to import them; easy_install can produce unexpected upgrades. The system package manager (apt or yum) is much preferred. As a developer, eggs are great. If a python module is not already available from my system packagers, easy_install will find it, get it, and install it. I waste almost no time with system administration issues while developing. Fortunately, distutils includes tools like bdist_rpm so that python modules can be packaged for easy processing by the system package manager. So once I need to switch back to a sysadmin role, I can use the system tools to install and track packages. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/profile/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ 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
