[pygtk] Packaging pygtk and friends as eggs

[Don Question]

Hi Thomas,

maybe it's because gtk and therefore pygtk is an almost "linux only"
thing. Even if you include our bsd-friends, there is no real need for
an alien "quick and dirty" packaging system like the egg infrastructure.
The native "sophisticated" software-managment-systems just provides
too many benefits.

The eggs are by no means a bad thing, they just doesn't cut in, if compared
to the more organic "holistic" approach of software maintenance. 
For packages which are more cross-plattform the situation differs, but for mainly
 *nix systems the native packaging systems does all you could do with the eggs
(Yes, even multi-version installations!) and much more and with batteries
(bug-fix releases, dependency AND collisons checks, safe and clean uninstallations, ...) 
included! ;-)

Eggs are nice and good, but maybe not just for every situation. And maybe pygtk
is not an "useful" egg. If there are pygtk applications which would be nice to have
on other plattforms - well, chance is, they ought to be more plattform and
GTK-agnostic, or there's almost ever a better "native" solution in place.

Don


----- Original Message ----

From: Thomas Lotze <thomas at thomas-lotze.de>
To: pygtk at daa.com.au
Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 10:00:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pygtk] Packaging pygtk and friends as eggs

Thomas Lotze wrote:

...
> Let me emphasize again that I
> propose to help distribute pygtk and friends as eggs, possibly by
> sprinting on the subject with those of you who might happen to be at this
> year's Europython conference.

Hm, is anybody other than me even interested in this issue? Is it just
that none of the people interested will be at Europython - in that case,
let's stop talking about that specific conference and try to make progress
in some other way. Or am I simply out of luck wishing for a pygtk egg
because of something cultural among the pygtk developers which I'm not
aware of?

-- 
Thomas



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