On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:
Mine is not. I'm going to toss it in favor of a mpkg and/or egg based solution when one is ready.
Sounds good to me. I've always thought that you need to make it easy, but not too easy. Years ago, someone hosted a "python on Linux" site, that had nothing but a bunch of rpm of various python packages. If you had a version of Linux that they worked with, it was great, and extremely simple. Download what you want, and install it.
For OS-X, it could be even easier, as there aren't as many flavors of OS-X out there in the wild.
As we all start to create more mpkgs, it there someone that wants to host the collection? Bob?
I'll host packages if other people build them :)
Another option is for each package to be hosted at it's home (i.e. matplotlib.mpkg hosted at the matplotlib site). I'm not sure which is best, but I tend to lean toward making one site for OS-X packages. For that matter, it could be the same site as people put packages for other systems, packaged up in their native format. I tried to get something like this going a few years ago, but got very little support. I think most python programmers find it far more interesting to discuss/developer a nifty packaging system, rather than just maintaining a collection.
It's usually easier to have a platform-specific repository because you don't have to bug the author to update his page. It would be nice to have a central place to host everything (at least metadata), and that's what PyPI aims to be someday. Without the infrastructure, you can't really maintain a large collection unless you have a lot of free time, which most people don't.
-bob
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