[lxml-dev] Call for contribution towards lxml 1.3

[Martijn Faassen]

jholg at gmx.de wrote:
[snip useful thoughts]
> Btw I for one don't like eggs; I like to package libraries in my
> platform package format. Anyone know about a tool to convert an egg
> to a Sun package?

Converting eggs themselves, I don't know. Distutils/setuptools is able 
however is pluggable and should have the information to build all kinds 
of package formats, including tarballs, eggs, and rpms. This would be 
the right area to look into to get native package support.

In addition, the zc.buildout infrastructure that I experimented with in 
the past does provide nice ways to get a lxml set up which includes 
libxml2 and so on. Unfortunately it only makes sense if you develop the 
rest of your application as a buildout. zc.buildout is rumored to be 
growing support for RPM-based deployement and such, so that might be 
something else to explore.

Regards,

Martijn