[Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
>    Shortcuts don't, but file associations to those shortcuts do (at least to
>    the best of my understanding,) adding paths does, etc.  I agree that a
>    library (extensions or no) doesn't need to do these things.  But anything
>    targeted at an end-user on Windows has a reasonable chance of wanting
>    them.

>    Here I thought I was being pretty clear that I was only requesting that
>    things not be done to explicitly make it hard (or impossible) for someone
>    else to extend setuptools (or whatever replaces / refactors it) to do
>    these things.

I am +1 on this request. I am not a Windows users, but I would still like
to see my applications appear in the menus when I ship them. And now
free-desktop has a nice specification to do this, so it is technically
possible.

My 2 cents,

Gaël