At 09:53 AM 3/21/2008 -0600, zooko wrote: >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".
You also have to rename the EGG-INFO directory to a .egg-info file of the same basename as the original .egg; otherwise, pkg_resources and other runtime access to the egg won't know it's installed. _______________________________________________ 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