March 21, 2008
12:38 p.m.
At 09:53 AM 3/21/2008 -0600, zooko wrote:
Um, isn't this tool called "unzip"? I have done this -- accessed the source code -- many times, and unzip suffices.
I don't know what else would be required in order to make an egg into "a standard distutils-style installation".
You also have to rename the EGG-INFO directory to a .egg-info file of the same basename as the original .egg; otherwise, pkg_resources and other runtime access to the egg won't know it's installed.