Danek: I posed a question with the upstream maintainers to ask them about the purpose of the egg files and whether they need to be installed. Refer here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-November/010556.html I am extending the timeout to next Tuesday 12/02, in the hopes that I get an answer from the upstream community so we can make sure we are doing the right thing and installing the correct files. Brian >>> Exported Interfaces Stability Comments >>> ------------------- -------------- ----------------------- >>> /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/simplejson*.egg-info >>> Uncommitted Python egg files >> What is this for? I don't recall having seen any egg-related files being >> documented so far in any ARC case. > > Not true. Such egg files are a result of building a module via Python > setuptools. This is discussed in the setuptools ARC case: > > http://sac.sfbay/PSARC/2008/084/proposal.txt > > Egg files are documented here: > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs > > I believe there are only three modules in Solaris which use setuptools and > distribute egg files, all of which are recently added: > > - CSSutils (LSARC 2008/658) > - Twisted-Python 8.1 and Twisted-Python-Web2 8.1 (PSARC 2008/670) > - Elisa (LSARC 2008/713) > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org
