[Distutils] zc.buildout likes to download eggs...

[Martin Aspeli]

Lists In at IDC wrote:
>> Are there any facilities to share eggs among packages (I have a  
>> feeling
>> Jim implied there isn't yet)?
>>
>> If not, what would such a facility look like?
> 
> Yikes!
> 
> I'm looking at this from a CPAN perspective and wondering whether  
> it's even possible that these types of issues are not yet handled by  
> all the work that's gone into eggs et al.

You're misunderstanding. This has nothing to do with regular python 
packages using eggs (which they share just fine), it is about a specific 
tool (zc.buildout) which manages a very tightly controlled environment 
(for repeatable deployments). It may also be that zc.buildout does 
support this (which is basically useful mostly for development where you 
have lots of projects going on at once all using various packages), I'm 
only asking.

Martin