[Distutils] install as zip

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Mar 30 01:15:55 CEST 2009


At 10:10 PM 3/29/2009 +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
>Hi I have a Pylons-based app that I want to distribute through a 
>custom pypi. I use "easy_install -zmaxd somedir" to get the set of 
>eggs required to distribute my app. Some of the .eggs are zips, some 
>others are directories. I'd like zip eggs only, do I have a way to get that?

Currently, easy_install doesn't re-zip eggs that are already 
extracted to directories on sys.path.  Deleting the installed 
versions and re-installing them with '-z' should get you fixed up.



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