On 1/23/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
My post was mpl specific, but in general of course that's the case. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
