Chris Palmer wrote: > include the source. as it is, the dependency situation is as bad as gnumeric > in the late 90s: unbuildable. pull in the rest of the dependencies while > you're at it. > > then, file bugs to refactor and eliminate features to get the code size back > down.
I don't agree that bundling the dependencies would help. We do actually already do that in the -SUMO tarballs, BTW. Many, probably most of the build problems are due to bugs either in setuptools, or in the packages we depend on that would not be solved by bundling them. Bundling a package doesn't even guarantee that that copy of it will be used, because of setuptools bugs and misdesign of the Python path handling mechanisms. (Note that we already tried to fix those problems; that's why we're using a fork of setuptools. Zooko has put a lot of effort into that strategy, but to be honest I don't think it has been particularly successful, because setuptools was just too broken. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of an alternative that we could start using immediately.) -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com
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