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

[Brian Sutherland]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:31:34AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> > Tools which will need this data, in order to do their work.  Hence, 
> > the reason for standardizing the data, instead of the tool(s).
> 
> If there was a chance that the infrastructure being developed
> actually helps these tools, *that* would be a reasonable goal,
> IMO.
> 
> However, I'm extremely skeptical that this can ever succeed
> to the degree that whoever provides RPMs, .debs, or MSI
> files will actually use such data, as they will find that
> the data are incomplete, and they have to redo all of it,
> anyway.

I've found it extremely useful to have access to dependency information
when making Debian packages automagically out of setuptools tarballs.

It's not easy or robust to access/use it, but for my simple pure python
packages, it's been working wonderfully. 

-- 
Brian Sutherland