> However, I'm still interested in setting up the associations > so that an HTTP content-type header for .egg files could be > associated with easy_install. I assume if it were trivial it > would have been done by now.
But wouldn't this defeat one of the key features of eggs - that you do *not* need to manually locate them and install them? eggs allow you to install a Python program that has external dependencies, and have those external dependencies resolved automatically. If you really do need to manually locate and install a package, you may as well locate and install the bdist_wininst executable, or rpm, or whatever is "native" for the platform in question. I guess if some packages are *only* available as an egg it might make some sense - but I'm yet to get the "egg" religion to the point where I see having an egg as replacing all other distribution formats, so people who do attend that church may beg to differ... Mark _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
