[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Nov 24 14:26:40 CET 2005


Le mardi 22 novembre 2005 à 11:46 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit :
> Eggs give room for package metadata that doesn't exist otherwise. 
> Putting dependencies aside, this is functionality that simply doesn't 
> exist with the standard distutils installation.

You are advertising this metadata a lot, but what does it exactly
contain? If it's for dependencies, we can really live better without
them, or with a tool to convert them into .deb dependencies.
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