On 03.10.2006, at 19:09, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> Therefore, if it is possible to download and install eggs manually, >> then I am sure there would be a client base for a GUI-based installer >> associated with .egg files. > > It's still very atypical. You'd be coding a GUI client that three > people use.
I don't know. It is very hard to say what is "typical" without some hard data. In my immediate work environment I already see very different habits in installingh software, ranging from the PhD student who administrates his own PC as he likes to a large paranoid research lab where only one person is allowed to install software downloaded from the Internet. > There are options with easy_install to do all of these things. I'm > pretty sure there's an option to download packages without installing > them that people use to download the eggs (e.g. for transfer to > another machine or archival), and there's an option to use a > filesystem path instead of the internet for installing packages. That sounds fine. Still, there is always a need for GUI installers in my opinion. > Any other problems you have you should report to distutils-sig so that > they get fixed. It's definitely not going to get any less popular, so > you're going to have to live with setuptools. As long as there are no plans to abandon the standard distutils installation, I feel safe... and I can't find any other problems with setuptools before the one that blocks my packages (all of them) is solved. Konrad. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
