Paul Moore wrote:
2009/3/25 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>:
Since setuptools came on the scene, I can state with some certainty that many packages which would otherwise have been distributed as bdist_wininst installers, now aren't. In some cases, only source packages are provided (on the basis that easy_install will build what you need). In those cases, I can accept that maybe the developer would not have built Windows installers even before setuptools arrived. But in a significant number of cases - including setuptools itself!!!! - binary, version-specific eggs for Windows are provided, but no bdist_wininst installers. If the developer is willing to build an egg, he could just as easily have built an installer - but he now has to choose - build one or the other, or both. And not everyone chooses the same way.
Is it possible to write an egg to bdist converter (or vice versa)? _______________________________________________ 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
