On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >> So why is there a need for an egg binary format on Windows? > > I think the only extra specific feature bdist_egg provides is the > ability to use the self-contained > egg (zipped or not) directly in sys.path without having to install it > in a site-packages like directory. > > That's how zc.buildout works for example to isolate an execution > environment : it collects eggs in a directory called 'eggs', then > creates scripts with a modified sys.path that lists the paths of each > egg located in 'eggs'.
That's a feature of the installed (multi-version) egg, not the distribution format. That feature can be kept (or discussed, or whatever) separately from the discussion of bdist_egg as a distribution format. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
