On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/9 Michael Foord <[email protected]>: >> Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for >> installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst binaries. > > Actually, my understanding is that easy_install is perfectly able to > use (download, unpack and install) bdist_wininst packages. So *as a > binary distribution format* bdist_wininst installers can do all that > eggs can, plus extra (install themselves unassisted!)
Yes, the script is able to unpack and install those. So it could be the standard yes. > So why is there a need for an egg binary format on Windows? I think the only extra specific feature bdist_egg provides is the ability to use the self-contained egg (zipped or not) directly in sys.path without having to install it in a site-packages like directory. That's how zc.buildout works for example to isolate an execution environment : it collects eggs in a directory called 'eggs', then creates scripts with a modified sys.path that lists the paths of each egg located in 'eggs'. Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
