On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Timur Izhbulatov <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/2/28 Jorge Vargas <[email protected]>: >> I'm not a big fan of easy_install these days but I was wondering if it >> will be a good idea to provide binaries for linux too. or this is >> known to have issues with package manager and/or different distros? > > Hi Jorge, > > In my opinion, virtualenv already solves all non-root installation > problems on Linux and I never had any issues with distro packaged > headers on CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. Moreover, I personally avoid > installing any non-packaged software as root (easy_install, make > install etc.). > totally but we should also think that not everyone is going to follow our recommendation. Just to be clear by binary I was talking about egg files, not .deb/.rpm I DO think we need those somewhere down the line but we need someone to build them for us. I know we have one guy for rpms but no one from debian as far as I can tell.
> The only requirement for the underlying distro is having standard > development tools and some headers installed. It is quite reasonable > and, if I recall correctly, already documented. > hehe yes I know, I wrote that :) I was just wondering if it will be a good idea, installing headers/compiler in linux is a breeze and any decent user is supposed to have one yet some distros (ubuntu for example) aim at the end user not needing those. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
