After reading all this, I really don't believe that adding egg support to the stdlib at this time is the right thing to do. I am therefore rejecting the PEP.
I am hoping that someone will create a simpler bootstrap module that is able to download a file of pure Python code and install it, perhaps by running its setup.py, assuming that it only depends on distutils (or other things previously installed). I will welcome such a module into the stdlib. I'm not sure a PEP is even needed, though interested parties are certainly welcome to write a PEP specifying the behavior first. With 2.6 and 3.0 slated for release in September, there should be enough time to get this done before then. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
