2009/4/9 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com>: > Paul Moore wrote: >> >> An >> egg->bdist_wininst converter would fix this issue. As would everyone >> standardising on bdist_wininst (which, as per the previous message, >> appears to be prefectly feasible given that bdist_wininst seems to be >> a strict superset of egg...) > > I don't think this is true. I don't think bdist_wininst supports the > buildout use case where I want to install multiple versions of multiple > packages in different (or even the same) directory. This is a critical use > case for Zope/Plone apps.
OK, I'm making that statement based on some earlier comments. I've probably misunderstood them. But I thought easy_install could take a bdist_wininst installer and use it to make an egg? Am I wrong? Or is that not relevant here? Or is this another one of those "eggs are not easy_install is not setuptools" distinctions that confuses me so much? :-( Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
