[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

[Paul Moore]

On 11/25/05, Vincenzo Di Massa <hawk78_it at yahoo.it> wrote:
> > To me, this sucks. Sorry, Philip, I know *why* you can't introspect a
> > non-egg ElementTree well enough to avoid this, but it still sucks.
>
> Please read
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-November/005520.html
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-November/005521.html
>
> Can my proposal resolve the "suckiness".

Not for me, unfortunately (I use Windows, not Debian), but it seems
like a sensible and flexible suggestion for platforms where the system
packager maintains that sort of information.

Paul.