[PEAK] RuleDispatch not on Cheeseshop?

[Jay Parlar]

On 3/2/06, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> >> I thought RuleDispatch was already on the Cheeseshop?
> >
> > Nope.  I've been waiting until it had something resembling
> > documentation.  On the other hand, that doesn't seem to stop other
> > people from posting stuff there, so maybe I shouldn't worry so much.
> > ;)
>
> Indeed; the Cheese Shop lets people know it exists.  I've been
> regularly posting projects with no releases and only
> download-from-subversion links.  I don't know if that's helpful or not,
> but it seems like a fine idea by me.
>

Hmmm... Maybe I was looking at it wrong, but I was seeing Cheeseshop
as Python's own version of the Gentoo Portage tree. I mean, with
easy_install, we get all the nice dependency resolution and
everything.

And something certainly wouldn't go into the Portage tree unless it
could actually be built *just* from the Portage tree.

Putting it into the Cheeseshop with no releases and
download-from-subversion links seems like an ok thing, as long as it
still installs properly. It's when a package goes up and it *can't* be
installed that I get worried.

Of course, maybe I'm putting too much faith in the rest of the Python
community's willingness to use setuptools right now. I suppose it
wouldn't be fair to make Cheeseshop *only* for the setuptools users
out there.

Jay P.