In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Charlie Moad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > You can't put a readme in the zip file? > > > I think he was referring to the egg as a zip, which it technically is but > setuptools extracts it for you. I already find easy_install mysterious and unsettling and I guess you can add this notational confusion to the list. Why not call .egg.zip a "zipped egg" even if easy_install can handle it directly? But avoiding the notational issue entirely, here's my take on it: The file I downloaded was a .zip file. The obvious naive thing to do with a zip file is to unzip it, especially if one is looking for instructions! This yields a .egg file. It could yield a .egg file and a ReadMe file if one was included in the zip file. easy_install can install a .egg file so it's no harm to unzip the download. Presumably one could include a ReadMe file into the .egg.zip in such a way that easy_install would ignore it. On the other hand, the web page that is the source of the download could also have the ReadMe info, as you point out. Either is fine. Personally I am not sold on easy_install. It's a clever idea and maybe someday it'll live up to its promise, but right now it seems to have some many undesirable behaviors (such as mysteriously and needlessly downloading stuff). For now I'd suggest that package installers (e.g. as created by bdist_mpkg) be used for Mac because they are standard, are used by simply double clicking (thus have no learning curve or need to install anything), have ReadMe support build in, and do not mysteriously download stuff. -- Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
