Le lundi 10 septembre 2007 à 20:40 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
Also, eggs (as in the egg metadata that comes with the packages; not the
optional pseudo-jar copying zip format) may be duplication but it is not
needless duplication. Elf shared libraries and packages contain
duplicate
Le vendredi 07 septembre 2007 à 22:53 +0200, Stefano Canepa a écrit :
do you mean using setuptools upstream is bad for the resulting debian
package? Could you explain why?
Setuptools was designed by developers, for developers, and not much for
users. More specifically, it was designed for
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Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 04 septembre 2007 à 08:28 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
1) Do we want to create eggs where they aren't provided upstream. I see
that Debian's python-docutils package doesn't provide eggs in Etch but
you guys
On 9/10/07, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le vendredi 07 septembre 2007 à 22:53 +0200, Stefano Canepa a écrit :
do you mean using setuptools upstream is bad for the resulting debian
package? Could you explain why?
Setuptools was designed by developers, for developers, and
The most obnoxious things in setuptools, like automatic downloading of
dependencies at runtime and shipping everything in egg files that have
to be all decompressed on-the-fly by any python application being run,
were deactivated in Debian. (I can't imagine an operating system where
these
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From: Gael Varoquaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To sum up, the problem is that setup tools is not designed to interact
with the outside world. It does not provide an api for listing
dependencies, does all kind of magic during the install, and insists for
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think you need listen to anything the setuptools developers
say, as they have close to zero understanding of the packaging
issues they create for us.
For users stuck in the middle, it would be good if there was a clear
statement of exactly
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