On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
I am wondering about other cases though:
- it seems that pkg_resources works on .egg-info *directories*. When does this case happen ?
System packages (.rpm, .deb, etc.), or other install --root/--single-version-externally-managed installs of setuptools-based packages.
Ok, so in that case, the .egg-info directory contains a PKG-INFO file right inside ?
- you said that its needs to work on nested packages, but I can't see the difference when grabbing the metadata in such a package
More precisely: you can have nested .egg directories within a single zipfile. This is to support bundling a bunch of eggs in a single zipfile for easy application distribution.
I see. Does the global zip file have a specific extension ? (like .egg) or it can be any zip file as long as it contains .egg directories inside. I am sorry to ask those question, but I got lost in the code for those two particular cases, Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/