[Pythonmac-SIG] Marking the pre-built extensions as Intel-capable...

[Christopher Barker]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> For casual users it is easier to install mpkgs, hence we'll need
> mpkgs until someone writes the tool that allows one to double-click
> on eggs to install them. I'm tempted to do so myself just to avoid
> packaging stuff twice :-)
> 
> Mpkgs have another advantage: they allow you to include documentation
> and examples into the package. None of the existing packages on 
> pythonmac.org
> (except for pyobjc and possibly py2app) actually use this possibility,
> therefore I'd say this is not a very important advantage.

Doesn't the wxPython package?

Anyway, another advantage of eggs is that they can be versioned, so that 
users can have different versions of a package installed at once.

Couldn't we put a *.egg into a *.mpkg? and get the best of both worlds?

-Chris



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