Re: setuptools and .eggs

Jon Peirce wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Was anyone planning on building eggs of PyOpenGL for distribution using 
> setuptools? Would be really helpful for those of us developing other 
> packages for which PyOpenGL is one of many dependencies. We can then 
> distribute eggs that go off and find their own deps. Most python 
> packages nowadays seem to package binary eggs for windows and OS X and 
> then a tar.gz for linux.
>
> If nothing else, setuptools is a good step up from disutils in 
> automating building (I use it even when building regular bdist_ 
> distributions). I would do the work myself, but the setup.py looks 
> complex enough that someone with more experience of the package (and 
> SWIG) would do a better job! ;-)
>   
My intention is to offer a setuptools/egg distribution option for 
OpenGL-ctypes (PyOpenGL 3.x, in-process), but the level of customisation 
in PyOpenGLSWIG (PyOpenGL 2.x) makes it rather... daunting seeming.  If 
someone felt like working on the OpenGL-ctypes (or PyOpenGLSWIG) .egg 
distribution script, I'd be quite happy to help them with the process.  
BTW, I'm not actually a big fan of *using* eggs myself, but I recognise 
that they make large dependency chains easier to manage, so I see it as 
a good thing for us to provide.

Have fun,
Mike

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