Am Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:40:36 -0500 schrieb Phillip J. Eby: > Distributions required by entry points aren't automatically installed;
I see. > the > code loading the entry point has to pass an 'installer' function to the > loading API in order to support installation-on-demand. Presumably > zc.buildout doesn't do this. But neither does easy_install if I got this right: It's possible to install a distribution without its extra dependencies so that this distribution's scripts which need an extra fail when run. Why does easy_install install these scripts at all when it is to install the distribution without the respective necessary extras? > It won't offer all the bells-and-whistles of easy_install, but that's > actually an advantage for this use case, methinks. I wonder why all of the easy_install functionality isn't formulated as a package that others, including zc.buildout and your setuptools 0.7 installer function, can use. I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is that I should read some more of the sources, though ;o) -- Viele Grüße, Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
