[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

[Bob Tanner]

Ian Bicking wrote:

>>>Eggs give room for package metadata that doesn't exist otherwise.
>>>Putting dependencies aside, this is functionality that simply doesn't
>>>exist with the standard distutils installation.  
<snip>

>> Understood, but wouldn't it be reasonably possible to
>> also install this meta-data into a standard site-packages
>> package directory ?
<snip>
 
> An egg and Python packages don't map 1-to-1.  An egg can contain
> multiple packages (which is fairly uncommon so far), but also a
> top-level package can exist in more than one egg (i.e., namespace
> packages, like zope.interfaces or paste.script).  The metadata belongs
> to the egg, not to the package inside the egg.

I'd like to bring focus back to immediate problem at hand (and yes, I
understand there is something much bigger involved).

The ultimate goal is to debianize TurboGears, reading the above, and other
posts using the legacy site-packages (non-egg) installation will "break"
TurboGears?


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