[Distutils] easy_install prefering filename over #egg

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Nov 19 20:00:07 CET 2007


At 12:15 PM 11/19/2007 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
>We've been building some custom eggs for the lxml trunk and we uploaded
>the packages to our wiki, which replaced the .'s with -'s.  This messed
>up the filenames,

Stop right there.  That's the problem.  You also messed up the #egg 
part, by adding extra junk into the version, but that's 
irrelevant.  The simple fact is that egg files cannot be renamed 
without affecting their meaning.



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