> How about > "empty egg-info file, possibly due to an aborted egg-install - please remove > the file and reinstall the corresponding egg"? > > Rationale: Matt's case. check-errors.egg-info was empty, but the > installation of base64 was failing. If Matt had removed > check-errors.egg-info and retried installing base64, the installation of > base64 would work, but check-errors would still be broken > (chicken-status and chicken-uninstall would ignore it, for example).
Sure, whatever - feel free to change the message, if you think that makes it clearer. felix