Re: formencode as .egg in Debian ??
Ian Bicking wrote:
>>>Eggs give room for package metadata that doesn't exist otherwise.
>>>Putting dependencies aside, this is functionality that simply doesn't
>>>exist with the standard distutils installation.
<snip>
>> Understood, but wouldn't it be reasonably possible to
>> also install this meta-data into a standard site-packages
>> package directory ?
<snip>
> An egg and Python packages don't map 1-to-1. An egg can contain
> multiple packages (which is fairly uncommon so far), but also a
> top-level package can exist in more than one egg (i.e., namespace
> packages, like zope.interfaces or paste.script). The metadata belongs
> to the egg, not to the package inside the egg.
I'd like to bring focus back to immediate problem at hand (and yes, I
understand there is something much bigger involved).
The ultimate goal is to debianize TurboGears, reading the above, and other
posts using the legacy site-packages (non-egg) installation will "break"
TurboGears?
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