On Mar 27, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>> I'd certainly prefer eggs where possible, but transitionally we're
>>> definitely going to need *.mpkgs.  Maybe both for now, and/or  
>>> separate
>>> pages for .mpkgs and binary eggs?
>>
>> What happens if you double-click on a *.egg?
>>
>> I like that anyone with OS-X can figure out how to install from a  
>> *.mpkg
>
> Without any experience with "eggs" (I believe that they are another
> Phillip Eby brainstorm?), can I suggest that a standard command-line
> way of simply wrapping an egg as an mpkg would be a "good thing to
> have"?  That way, contributors could just build eggs, and the website
> could serve up either a raw egg or a wrapped egg as an mpkg.
>
> Is there a specification for the "egg" format?

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

-bob

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