I'd like to bundle some third party eggs with my application without
installing them. Typically, I'd read __file__ and alter sys.path at
runtime to include the third party packages, but I understand that will
not work with zipped eggs.
I don't know the best way to go about this, but I at least want to know
a clean way to do it without requiring the third party eggs to be
downloaded and installed separately. Consider this layout.
theapp/
docs/
setup.py
theapp/
__init__.py
app.py
ext/
thirdparty1.egg
thirdparty2.egg
thirdparty3.egg
tests/
From my current understanding about how setuptools works, I think I
could treat the third party eggs as data files and and runtime
(somehow?) insert them into the path and import them.
I'm trying to work from this example.
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs#accessing-package-resources
Is this a workable approach? Is there a better way?
--Randall
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