On 19 June 2015 at 18:19, Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, it could be mentioned in the "eggsecutable scripts" section, esp. > since what that has now doesn't really parse anyway:
While I understand what you want, and it sounds like you have found a way to achieve it, Daniel is right - this feature of eggs (and indeed the whole egg format in general) is essentially deprecated nowadays. If you want an installable binary, you should be using wheels, and if you want a single-file executable, you should be using zipapp (the zipapp module is new in 3.5, but zipping up the correct directory structure has been supported for ages). The documentation around eggs, and indeed around distutils/setuptools, has never been wonderful. That's a long-standing problem we're looking to fix, but we almost certainly won't be improving the documentation for "eggsecutable scrips" - it's more likely that we'll *remove* that documentation and leave the feature present solely for backward compatibility. (Note: I do *not* speak as the setuptools maintainer - Jason may well have a different view - but what I say above is my understanding as one of the pip maintainers of the general direction the packaging community is heading). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
