[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No. setuptools(egg) is incompatible with all major distro package > system I know of.
Hopefully, that won't be true for very long. There are projects out there such as easy_deb, along with people working on RPM support for eggs, and egg support for gentoo. None of these are official yet, but in the long run hopefully most systems will have some support for them. > It is clean, doesn't interfere with your production environment. The -D > option or whatever conflict resolving option by setuptools are in > general not acceptable for a well maintained system. Yes, the -D option is intended to remove Python packages that were manually installed, so if manual installation is not "well-maintained", then your statement is true by definition. :) However, the truth is that many people have systems where manual installation via "setup.py install" is de rigeur, especially development systems.
