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 > > _______________________________________________ > pygtk mailing list [email protected] > http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk > Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
