[Distutils] easy_install: fragment support

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:17 PM 7/16/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>I've attached a patch to detect fragments.

Would you mind doing it as a unidiff?  I'm having trouble 
understanding/applying it without context.  Thanks.


>It seems better to have some magic version string for development, that is 
>neither more or less than other versions (or at least it depends on 
>context -- it's the highest version number when using --develop [should 
>that be implemented], and the lowest otherwise).  But that's only useful 
>given a --develop option to easy_install.py.

I was actually thinking that such packages should have their Distribution 
object be of a new 'type', which would have lower precedence than other 
distribution types unless development mode was in effect (in which case 
other distribution types would be ignored).