On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM, John Salerno <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only files included in the .tar.gz file is a .tar file of the same > name. So I guess the setup option doesn't exist for these particular > packages.
The setup.py file (as well as the other files) would be inside the .tar file. Unlike a Windows zip file, which does both archival and compression, Unix files are typically archived and compressed in two separate steps: "tar" denotes the archival format, and "gz" denotes the compression format. Some decompression programs are smart enough to recognize the .tar file and automatically extract it when decompressing. Others require you to decompress the .gz and extract the .tar separately -- it sounds like yours is one of the latter. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
