On 11/10/06, Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "eggs" are wonderful for no-hassle get-all-the-dependencies. However, > they can trigger hands-off downloads from various sites. This is Bad > News for corporate environments in which every download is carefully > pre-approved. > > A tarball with a subdirectory of "third_party" packages is ok. A web > page simple listing the third party sites and the recommended > downloads is ok. Automatically downloading is not ok. > > Is there some way in the eggs mechanism to just get a list of the > proposed downloads, and let the user take the actions manually? > that is not implemented yet, also you may want to take this to the distutils-sig list.
what you can do is read the egg's setup.py for it's dependencies, but this can turn into something like red hat's dep hell. > -- > Harry George > PLM Engineering Architecture > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
