On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am wondering about other cases though: >> >> - it seems that pkg_resources works on .egg-info *directories*. When >> does this case happen ? > > System packages (.rpm, .deb, etc.), or other install > --root/--single-version-externally-managed installs of setuptools-based > packages.
Ok, so in that case, the .egg-info directory contains a PKG-INFO file right inside ? > > >> - you said that its needs to work on nested packages, but I can't see >> the difference when grabbing the metadata in such a package > > More precisely: you can have nested .egg directories within a single > zipfile. This is to support bundling a bunch of eggs in a single zipfile > for easy application distribution. I see. Does the global zip file have a specific extension ? (like .egg) or it can be any zip file as long as it contains .egg directories inside. I am sorry to ask those question, but I got lost in the code for those two particular cases, Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
