[schooltool-dev] Re: General Enthusiasm and Questions for SchoolTool 2007 Release

[Brian Sutherland]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:05:01PM -0400, Tom Hoffman wrote:
>  I guess one other possibility might be to use the Python egg packaging
>  for this version of CanDo instead of Ubuntu .deb packages.  There are
>  some disadvantages to this, but it may be way, way easier this time
>  around, since most if not all of the relevant dependencies already
>  exist as eggs (not .debs).

I think we can easily do both. Packaging a simple python module is
relatively easy.

Packaging can do some things that eggs cannot, further integration into
edubuntu being the major win. But, eggs are great for those who insist
on using other operating systems or who want to quickly have a checkout
like instance.

-- 
Brian Sutherland