[pygtk] Packaging pygtk and friends as eggs

[John Stowers]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 11:59 +0200, Thomas Lotze wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm interested in whether there are any plans for packaging pygtk and its
> dependencies as Python eggs, so they may be properly declared as
> dependencies of other code distributed as an egg, and installed using
> de-facto standard tools like easy_install and buildout. If all of this
> were possible, it would become a lot easier and more straight-forward to
> use pygtk in projects that use the egg distribution format themselves.
> 
> If it is considered helpful by the pygtk developers, and if any of them
> happen to attend this year's Europython conference, I'd like to offer
> spending some time at the conference together to get this packaging issue
> solved.

A bit of an aside, but what is the general policy for similar software -
use the distribution package manager and package system to install the
software or use eggs? Is it ever feasible to mix the two?

John

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