Folks: Here is a simple proposal: make the standard Python "import" mechanism notice eggs on the PYTHONPATH and insert them (into the *same* location) on the sys.path.
This eliminates the #1 problem with eggs -- that they don't easily work when installing them into places other than your site-packages and that if you allow any of them to be installed on your system then they take precedence over your non-egg packages even you explicitly put those other packages earlier in your PYTHONPATH. (That latter behavior is very disagreeable to more than a few prorgammers.) This also preserves most of the value of eggs for many use cases. This is backward-compatible with most current use cases that rely on eggs. This is very likely forward-compatible with new schemes that are currently being cooked up and will be deployed in the future. 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
