[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 11:09:20 CET 2005


On 11/27/05, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:

>  easy_install --already-provided=1.2.6 ElementTree
>
> that will create a .egg-info directory.

[Windows POV, so I removed the Debian crossposts]

Hmm, but what if I then upgrade (uninstall & install a new version)
ElementTree? The egg dependency information is wrong, I guess. Sounds
like a potential problem.

OTOH, do I really care? Is version 1.2.7 really going to break all my
software???

Paul.


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