On Mar 20, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Robert Brewer wrote: > Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> The other tool that would be handy to have, would be one that unpacks >> eggs into standard distutils-style installation. > > Hear, hear. I'm an author of a couple libraries that need to > interoperate with others. Of the many eggs I've downloaded over the > past > year, I'd say 80%+ are never installed or even built--I just want to > grep the source code, and using my preferred tools, not some lame Find > command in a ZIP browser menu.
Um, isn't this tool called "unzip"? I have done this -- accessed the source code -- many times, and unzip suffices. I don't know what else would be required in order to make an egg into "a standard distutils-style installation". Until PJE's comment above, I thought that unzip already accomplished exactly that. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ 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
