Re: [gentoo-dev] Python setuptools/eggs

[Rob Cakebread <pythonhead@gentoo.org>]

Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
> 
> But aren't eggs a bit against the Gentoo philosophy? I mean there are
> some eggs that contain precompiled C-extensions. Shouldn't it still be
> source builds that just somehow work with setuptools?
> 


We wouldn't use the precompiled C eggs. The main reason I'm looking
at eggs so soon is because packages may start using them exclusively
and we will have the choice of using them via portage or let people
install them manually via easy_install. This happened with Rails. They
have the source available but comes with no way to install it properly
and they only support gems installations officially, so the gems eclass
was born.


<snip>
>>Mail me off-list or join #gentoo-python if you're interested
>>in working on the easy_install eclass, please.
> 
> 
> Should we move this off-list?
> 

I haven't worked with easy_install for about a month so I haven't
got much to add, but I'm catching up on it tonight. Since nobody else on
the Python team has spoken up, I think they may not be caught up either.
I received a few mails from other interested people, and we're meeting
on irc for now.

Thanks,
Rob


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