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

[Jim Fulton]

On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> 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.

I think it's a losing battle.  Unicode size is just one example.  
Library locations ca be another.  There are probably others.

Jim

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