Bob Ippolito wrote: > Yes, it is, and there's an example in the py2app sources that does > exactly that.. but it falls apart if you need options or if you have > proxy issues. Additionally, the common use case is "easy_install name" > rather than "easy_install > i_went_through_the_trouble_to_download_this_file_to_my_harddrive.egg" > so it proved to be rather useless in a general context (for anyone > that knows about easy_install a priori).
I'm actually just in this to find a place to put the egg icon. :p But it seems, on general principle, that it would be good to have some app that knows what egg files are to associate with launch services, even if all it does is pop up an informative message that says "run the following command from the terminal…" or something. I'm really not joking about this one. Users new to python have no idea what a .egg file is, and there's nothing that I could find in the standard python docs about what they are or how to use them (For instance, neither the [Installing Python Modules][ipm] page, nor the Library Reference, nor the Tutorial makes any mention of eggs). Double clicking an egg file currently pops up a message that the system doesn't know what it is. The whole point of eggs is that they're supposed to make life *easy*, and *just work*. [ipm]: http://python.org/doc/current/inst/inst.html Further down the line, it would be neat to have some sort of GUI app for browsing through python packages. I don't know exactly what eggs look like internally, but it's my understanding that they contain code, plus information about dependencies, etc? Maybe we could make a cocoa app for looking through all the installed packages on a user's computer, with a web view showing docstrings pulled out of the code, or even a text view showing the full code itself. This app could show which packages were installed with which python version, and exactly where they were located on disk, etc. I propose the name `Egg Basket.app`. :) Maybe this is too much to dream, as no one really has the time to make such a thing. But we're Mac users here. We should strive for discoverable, clear, intuitive interfaces, even when it comes to programming. -Jacob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
