Previously Sidnei da Silva wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Tres Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The source dist is trivially convertible to an egg (easy_install does > > that on the fly). I can't see any reason for releasing actual eggs, > > rather than source distributions, with the minor exception of packages > > which contain C extentions: those packages should probably release > > Windows eggs, just because of the tool-poverty of Windows users. > > I wouldn't call the lack of shipping with a compiler installed > tool-poverty. Some modern Linux 'desktop' distributions do not ship > with a compiler installed by default either, though it's relatively > easy installing a compiler there than on Windows, I wouldn't say > that's such a big deal.
Iirc OSX ships without a usable compiler as well. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Zope-PAS mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-pas
