Matt Feifarek wrote:
> On 2/15/07, *Shannon -jj Behrens* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     Use "python setup.py develop" and then pretend you're not using an
>     egg, but that you installed the app in Python's site-packages ;)
> 
> 
> I remember that vaguely from my first Pylons tutorial... I suppose it 
> got lost in all of the hoops one has to jump through. I take it that it 
> "installs" the egg, making it appear to be a "real" package. Thanks.

It puts a line in easy-install.pth (on the actual page) that points to 
your package directory.  And again you need the indirection, because it 
actually has to point to the parent of the package directory.

>     I have multiple one-off Web sites.  I just think of eggs as a nice way
>     to distribute them in .zip files :-/ 
> 
> 
> Can one just zip 'em and then change the file extension?

Almost, but not quite -- python setup.py egg_info writes some 
(important) stuff to MyPackage.egg-info, and an egg itself generally 
puts the metadata in EGG-INFO instead of MyPackage.egg-info -- though 
when and why is a little unclear to me.

-- 
Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org

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