Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 01:52 PM 12/22/2005 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Somewhat related to this: wouldn't it be possible to build >> .egg ZIP files using the same layout, ie. with the .egg-info >> subdir inside the package instead of having a top-level >> EGG-INFO directory in the ZIP file ?! >> >> That way, you could simply unzip the .egg file somewhere >> on your PYTHONPATH in order to install it and still have >> the meta information at hand. > > And the advantage of manually doing this over having easy_install do it > would be...?
* No magic, whatsoever. * No dependencies on a specific package manager. * No commands to learn. * No cluttering up PYTHONPATH. * No mangling of sys.path at runtime. * No Python installation slowdown due to frequent scans of ZIP files. I guess what I want to say is: eggs would become a no-strings-attached, easy to use drop-in install format. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 22 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
