eggs considered harmful

[John J. Lee]

Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com> writes:
> jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
[...]
>> 2. You can run your own private egg repository.  IIRC, it's as simple
>> as a directory of eggs and a plain old web server with directory
>> listings turned on.  You then run easy_install -f URL package_name
>> instead of easy_install package_name .  The distutils-sig archives
>> will have more on this.
>
> Again, not speaking for anyone else: With 500 OSS packages, all of
> which play by the same tarball rules, we don't have resources to
> handle eggs differently.

You said earlier:

> The rules are that a) a very few authorized downloaders obtain
> tarballs and put them in a depot and b) other users get tarballs from
> the depot and build from source.

Not sure how this differs significantly "from running a repository",
in the sense I use it above.


John