TurboGears 2.0.1 now available on pypi
Since the beginning (nearly) of TurboGears 2.x development we use a private index to store all our dependencies and point people to it for installation. This was nice because it helped us control our dependency tree and make sure installation of our unstable software was as easy as possible.
Since we had released a stable 2.0 version, followed by a 2.0.1 bugfix, we really were lacking a real pypi install mechanism. This is now a thing of the past! You can install a full blown TurboGears2 environment in one simple command:
easy_install tg.devtools
and this will fetch everything using normal lookups from the pypi. I hope this will help people out there.
At the same time I’d like to ask for help in that domain: If you are using TurboGears2 and find out that some dependency that needs compilation is not found in a compiled state (either on pypi or on our index), please help us:
- By sending a compiled version of the egg to me (florent aide, you’ll find me on the mailing list easily)
- By pointing us the missing dependency (send a mail in the turbogears or turbogears-trunk mailing list)
- Or even better: try to become a maintainer for the specific dependency, that you know will always be missing for your architecture, and let us know about that great news. The whole open source community will become better, your karma (the real one, not the one you can admire on ohloh) will bump-up and you’ll be forever remembered on endor.
Now this leaves us with one more thing to do: finish the web site for turbogears that is currently in a poor state. If you would like to help us on the engine, please let us know in the mailing lists or via private message. If you want to help-out with content, please let us know also and we’ll be more than glad to give you an editor account and some directions to get some content online in this new website.
Cheers all,
Florent.