On Sep 19, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: ... > Note that the scripts generated by zc.buildout don't use > pkg_resources to determine the eggs to be loaded at run time.
It's also worth noting that the eggs documentation, http:// peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs, explicitly advertises that setuptools is not needed to use eggs: "If you have a pure-Python .egg file that doesn't use any in- package data files, and you don't mind manually placing it on sys.path or PYTHONPATH, you can use the egg without installing setuptools. " I'm going to start with the following compromise in zc.buildout. If an egg uses namespace packages, then I'll treat setuptools as a dependency of the egg even if the egg doesn't list it as a dependency. This will address the common case of eggs using setuptools soley for namespace-package support. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
