On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
The latter. > 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). My proposal is that the boostrap module only be able to install non-egg archives. > Is it *wanted* that eggs are being supported by core Python? No. There will be no egg support in the standard library. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
