Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

2008-04-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ben Finney writes: Stanley A. Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMHO, the main system without a package manager is Windows. AFAICT the MacOS platform also lacks in this area. Actually, they both have them. Windows has Cygwin (rpm-based), while for MacOS Fink (deb-based), MacPorts

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joachim I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the Joachim files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it Joachim created, and that have not been modified in the meantime (after Joachim the installation).

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

2008-03-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Martin v. Löwis writes: I don't think any of the core committers is qualified to write such a document. Instead, it would have to be written by people who *actually* ported a project from 2 to 3 in some form. Note that this is precisely the kind of experience Skip Montanaro is talking