[Scons-users] Packaging SCons tools

[Dirk Bächle]

On 13.03.2014 20:47, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:

> [...]

> I think we don't need another package manager. Nowadays, it seems that

> every programming language and large software framework has its own

> package manager, just because Microsoft Windows and OS X have no

> system-wide package manager. However, it seems that PyPI would be the

> lowest common denominator for all operating systems. So SCons would just

> have load the tools that have been installed via easy_install or similar

> software. Why not use established mechanisms such as entry points?


Maybe that's possible. But entry points can't decide which Tools are 
"good enough" to get included in the PyPI package. That's what I mean by 
package manager, an "authority" establishing a kind of quality standard...

Dirk