Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Note, by the way, that those two things are the only essentials here, as > best I can tell, and I've already stated my willingness to change *how* > those two things get accomplished. For clarity, I will repeat yet again, > in yet another way: > > 1. Egg-based projects need to install their published metadata, in a > well-known location relative to the installation location of their code, so > that it can be found by searching sys.path, so that it and other projects > can locate the metadata for currently-importable projects, *without* > needing to first import the project's code. > > 2. Egg-based projects need to be able to identify whether another Python > project package is installed and what version it is, without requiring > modification to that other project's code or needing to import it. (And > this is independent of whether the depended-on project was packaged as an > egg by its author.) > > As far as I'm aware, those are the irreducible technical minimum > requirements for making an egg-based project work. *How* these > requirements are met is quite flexible, as there are already three working > layouts that achieve this. As I said before, I'm quite willing to > implement a fourth. But nobody has been proposing anything that meets > these requirements, because they're too busy trying to prove the > requirements don't exist or are somehow not real.
[Note: I am a happy Debian user, though not a DD. I am also one of the developers of a Debian-packaged Python package, and we're considering using pkg_resources to implement certain new features. I swear, this is like watching two parents fight. Anyways...] I think one of the sticking points with the Debian developers has been that the .egg-info metadata is being put into /usr/lib/... when according to Debian policy and general UNIX lore, such should be placed somewhere in /usr/share/.... Would it be possible to treat /usr/share/pythonX.Y-egginfo/ as a proxy for /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ when searching for .egg-info directories? -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
