[Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Mar 22 16:52:33 CET 2008


Neal Becker wrote:
> Another use case, which I find in my world, is that there are always
> packages that interest me (found at pypi), that my vendor hasn't packaged
> as rpms yet.
> 
> With finite resources, this will always be true.

Why do you need a package database for that? Can't you just run
"setup.py install", or perhaps "setup.py bdist_rpm", and then install
the RPM?

Regards,
Martin


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