On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: >>> Yes, the egg itself gets hosted on Cheese Shop, as well as the >>> source >>> download (hence the "upload"). >>> >>> The packages you often use are not yet using setuptools, >> >> Do you know of a package I can find on cheeseshop that is using >> setuptools? I'd like to get a sense of what features that offers. >> >>> so it's no >>> surprise that they don't take advantage of these new features that >>> aren't in distutils. >> >> Well, matplotlib has an egg on the sourceforge download site, and >> NumPy >> is putting its include files in a odd place specifically to >> accommodate >> ssetuptools, and neither of those have eggs on cheeseshop. I guess >> setuptools really hasn't caught on yet. but it does seem to be >> gaining a >> lot of momentum, so I'm hopeful. > > I just thought I would mention that you don't see the mpl eggs on > cheeseshop for a reason. The download url is set to mpl's sf files > page. Setuptools is smart enough to look at cheeseshop and see the > download url and then find the correct egg from there, hence > 'easy_install matplotlib' works. Sorry if I misinterpreted your post.
The reason you don't see the egg on Cheese Shop is because a maintainer did not upload it to Cheese Shop, period. setuptools is smart enough to install things from SVN urls, source tarballs/zips, and eggs.. and it does a relatively good job at globbing those URLs out of anchor tags on the HTML pages that it finds via the Cheese Shop metadata -- but that's not *why* the eggs aren't on Cheese Shop. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
