brian sutherland iyusrwebde sat mar 22 2008 023134am 0100 martin v lwis wrote tools need data order work hence reason standardizing data instead tools chance infrastructure developed actually helps tools would reasonable goal imo however im extremely skeptical ever succeed degree whoever provides rpms debs msi files actually use data find data incomplete redo anyway ive found extremely useful access dependency information making debian packages automagically setuptools tarballs easy robust accessuse simple pure python packages working wonderfully brian sutherland _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom sat 26 jul 2008 185002 0100 pythondev distutils get rid eggs 26 beyond