On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote: ... > I just want to gather up all of the original .egg > files and put them into a tarball. Everything you'd need would be in > there, and there could even be a trivial wrapper script that runs > ez_setup.py with all of the right options to install those packages. > This can give the user all of the easy_install options for > installing, rather than being stuck manually dropping the untarred > directory into the right place or adding it to their PYTHONPATH..
Note that you probably want more than this. In particular, you probably want to assemble a bunch of source distributions so that your tar ball is useful on a number of distributions, at least for a source tarball. FWIW, I plan, in the next few days to publish a proposal for providing this functionality in zc.buildout. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
