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. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214 _______________________________________________ Zope-PAS mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-pas
