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

2008-03-28 Thread Jeff Younker
On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: Sharing the system python is hugely problematic on a unix box which actually *uses* python for its own tools: the application is not safe from additions / updates / removeals of the packages in /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages done to

Re: [Distutils] Python Package Management Sucks

2008-09-23 Thread Jeff Younker
I have to say, as a developer, and a system administrator, I like setuptools. It does what I need. Could it be better? Sure. For what I use python for on a day-to-day basis it makes my life a thousand times better than it was before setuptools. Nothing ruins your day more than spending