[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python and eggs...

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see eggs used for everything that can be distributed  
>> as  an
>> egg... but as Ronald says, mpkgs still have their place for  packages
>> that need to install Other Stuff, and as a transitional  means.
>
> Can you put an egg in a mpkg?

Not yet.

>> There's no good reason to prefer eggs on pythonmac.org.
>
> I don't quite follow. Are you suggesting that we don't put any eggs on
> pythonmac? If so, then we do put non-egg packages there? I am  
> concerned
> that that will just confuse the users more. I'd really like to be able
> to tell people: go to this place, and all available packages for  
> Python
> on OS-X are there.

We could mine Cheese Shop and list the pure python packages, the  
packages that have Mac OS X eggs, and the mpkgs.

-bob