[Zope3-dev] Re: Do *not* upload binary eggs or distributions, except Windows, to download.zope.org or pypi.

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Platform dependent distributions are *not* portable. They can depend on 
> system settings, such as Python Unicode size and library locations.  
> This can cause major annoyance and breakage when people automatically 
> download these with easy_install or zc.buildout.

Yeah, the unicode issue in particular is major suckage in the egg 
infrastructure. It'd be nice if eggs could distinguish between Python 
version by compilation option.

Regards,

Martijn