Chris Withers wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> mxSetup.py, the module implementing all our distutils extensions, >> is available in egenix-mx-base which is open source: >> >> http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ > > I have memories of mxBase having a load of other stuff in it too?
Yep, lots of it. > Would it be possible to split just the distutils extensions into their > own package and get that package as an sdist on PyPI? Nope. The main reason for having switched to distributions is to make things easier to manage - both for us and our users. > That said, I still think getting the bdist_egg code, at least, into > Distutils in the core as soon as possible would be a very good thing. > It's kinda odd having the python equivalent of jars or gems only being > created by third party software that's no longer maintained... > >> Note how the package name is mangled... easy_install requires this. >> The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for >> a UCS2 Python build. Again, easy_install fails with that information >> added to the "py2.6" version marker. > > Surely this stuff all belongs in the static metadata file that keeps on > overcomplicating itself in discussions? The complicated stuff does belong somewhere else, but the basic things need to go into the filename - simply because you have to build separate files for each Python build dimension and want to be able to put everything into a single directory or index: * Python version * Architecture/Platform * UCS2/UCS4 E.g. to solve the UCS2/4 part, we had to setup separate PyPI-style index sites. We'd really like to avoid that if possible. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 05 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
