Guido van Rossum wrote: > It should be able to download a Python-only module or package and > install it into site-packages (or perhaps elsewhere if so directed via > another optional command line flag). It should support zip, tar and > tar.gz/tgz files (and perhaps tar.bz2). It should simply unpack the > zip/tar file using the zip or tar modules, and extract the > package/module into site-packages in such a way that it can be > imported directly without messing with sys.path. It should not mess > with .pth files, setup.py scripts, or eggs.
Do you mean "existing eggs" or does that include the (potential .egg) package that is being installed? If I understood correctly, this bootstrap module currently supports installing eggs (although I'm not sure how they are supposed to work without the current way of keeping a .pth file). Is it *wanted* that eggs are being supported by core Python? Stefan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
