At 09:55 AM 8/8/2007 -0500, Mark Hammond wrote:
However, I'm still interested in setting up the associations so that an HTTP content-type header for .egg files could be associated with easy_install. I assume if it were trivial it would have been done by now.
But wouldn't this defeat one of the key features of eggs - that you do *not* need to manually locate them and install them?
Not really. I see the usefulness of this as being able to simply click on a download link in the Cheeseshop after discovering a package's existence (e.g. by reading the Cheeseshop RSS feed). Of course, I personally have a shell window open at all times, so it's no big deal for me to switch over and type "easy_install foo", so defining support for quick-download launching hasn't been a high priority for me.