Re: Redistribution without install

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:03:26 +0200 Stefan Reich 
<wertiges.produkt-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Anders, thanks for answering.
>
>Anders Kaseorg schrieb:
>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Stefan Reich wrote:
>>   
>>> Can I make PyYAML a part of my source distribution?
>>>     
>>
>> This is almost always discouraged.  Even if it seems convenient at 
first, 
>> in the long run it will make life harder for your users, and especially 
>> for distributions that want to package your software: 
>> <http://lwn.net/Articles/277132/> (see the  Internal libraries  
section).
>>   
>How does it make life harder for my users? They don't have to do 
>anything. They just run my software.
>
>The scenario of some distributions (what distributions?) wanting to 
>package my software is something that is so far in the future that it's 
>not an issue for me at this point.

I packaged pyyaml for Debian/Ubuntu and by policy neither distro allows new 
packages with embedded code copies.  If you insist on shipping an embedded 
pyyaml (please don't), please make it easy to remove and use a system 
installed pyyaml instead.

Scott K

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