Re: [Python-Dev] .pth files are evil

2009-05-10 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On May 9, 2009, at 9:39 AM, P.J. Eby wrote: It would be really straightforward, though, for someone to implement an easy_install variant that does this. Just invoke "easy_install -Zmaxd /some/tmpdir packagelist" to get a full set of unpacked .egg directories in /some/tmpdir, and then move

how GNU stow is complementary rather than alternative to distutils

2009-05-10 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On May 10, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: If GNU stow solves all your problems, why do you want to use easy_install in the first place? That's a good question. The answer is that there are two separate jobs: building executables and putting them in a directory structure of the

ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Lofty-Atmospheric Filesystem, v1.5

2009-08-01 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
er time is no longer funded by allmydata.com (see [13] for details). Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team Special acknowledgment goes to Brian Warner, whose superb engineering skills and dedication are primarily responsible for the Tahoe implementation, and significantly respons