Dave Nebinger wrote:
I may be a bit of-base, but since I don't know much about the ruby gems, I'm
wondering how close of a situation this is with the perl cpan modules?
They're integrated to operate using the distribution process of both cpan and
portage...
They are similar. There is a pr
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
> > I've been working on an eclass for these but its not ready.
> > I was hoping it'd be as easy as the Ruby gems eclass, because
> > they are similar, but eggs don't play nicely in a sandbox yet.
>
> But aren't eggs a bit against the Gentoo philosophy? I mean there are
> some eggs that contain pre
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:45:18PM -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote:
> >How should Portage handle this?
> I've been working on an eclass for these but its not ready.
> I was hoping it'd be as easy as the Ruby gems eclass, because
> they are similar, but eggs don't play nicely in a sandbox yet.
But aren'
Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
It seems that alot of python projects are starting to use
setuptools/easy_install/eggs, and granted, it is quite neat, but there
needs to figured out a way to handle installing these things through
Portage, or alot of new versions are going to be a pain to have
installe
