[Twisted-Python] Twisted Plugins - Implementation Discussion

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Wed Apr 6 23:45:34 MDT 2011


On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:38 AM, Stephen Thorne wrote:

> On 2011-04-07, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>> Because, frankly, Python installation tools REALLY REALLY SHOULD be
>> able to install Python files into Python packages.  I'm not sure I can
>> make any other assertions quite so strongly.  I'm pretty sure that
>> this is a problem that more than one project is interested in solving.
>> No other projects are interested in installing '.twistd' files though,
>> I can assure you of that :).
> 
> This is entirely wrong. Python installation tools are barely capable of
> putting entire existing working python packages into a directory that if
> you mumble rhymes with "kite smackages".

This is why I said "should".  Python installation tools are basically incapable of anything.  And yet.

My point is that it's hard enough to advocate for bugs to be fixed in installing .py files; let's focus on that, and avoid installing other stuff.





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