Re: [Python-Dev] PIL vs. Imaging (was Re: eggs now mandatory for pypi?)

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Looks like the quickest fix is to distribute two source packages, one built the traditional way to eliminate breakage for people using the current tarball layout, and one built with sdist. Why the need for two? Or, asked differently, who would be hurt if the distribution

[Python-Dev] PIL vs. Imaging (was Re: eggs now mandatory for pypi?)

2009-10-05 Thread P.J. Eby
At 01:26 PM 10/5/2009 +0200, Jens W. Klein wrote: And as far as I understand PIL is not the problem, but the packaging/ setuptools. For the records: PIL is a great piece of software and I dont want to miss it. Actually, the problem is that the package is called PIL in Pypi, but the actual

Re: [Python-Dev] PIL vs. Imaging (was Re: eggs now mandatory for pypi?)

2009-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: names for the same thing.  (I'm guessing that PIL was registered on PyPI manually, before the setup.py register command existed.  Heck, it was probably being distributed before the distutils even existed, and indeed before