[Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:03 PM 4/9/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
>2009/4/9 Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:
> > Paul Moore wrote:
> >>
> >> An
> >> egg->bdist_wininst converter would fix this issue. As would everyone
> >> standardising on bdist_wininst (which, as per the previous message,
> >> appears to be prefectly feasible given that bdist_wininst seems to be
> >> a strict superset of egg...)
> >
> > I don't think this is true. I don't think bdist_wininst supports the
> > buildout use case where I want to install multiple versions of multiple
> > packages in different (or even the same) directory. This is a critical use
> > case for Zope/Plone apps.
>
>OK, I'm making that statement based on some earlier comments. I've
>probably misunderstood them.
>
>But I thought easy_install could take a bdist_wininst installer and
>use it to make an egg?

Yes, it can.

You could also, in principle, reverse the process.  However, the 
resulting bdist_wininst wouldn't support multiple versions, because 
the bdist_wininst infrastructure doesn't support that.