[Distutils] easy_install: fragment support

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:03 PM 7/16/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Sure, attached again...
> 
> 
> Thanks; I hope you don't mind if I don't include the "make emacs happy" 
> bit that I don't understand.  :)

Like Bob said, it's to fix Emacs syntax highlighting, which doesn't 
understand triple-quoted strings.  package_index.py looks like one giant 
string in Emacs without it.

> I'm also thinking that --develop should take an argument: a parent 
> directory in which the package(s) should be checked out.

That sounds like a good idea; I hadn't thought through exactly how that 
would work.

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