[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib?

[Nick Coghlan]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> ** The exception is scripts.  Scripts go wherever --install-scripts=  
> point to, and AFAIK there is no means to ensure that the scripts from  
> one egg do not interfere with the scripts for another egg or anything  
> else on the PATH.  I'm also not sure what the uninstallation story  
> with scripts is.

Hopefully PEP 338 will go some way towards fixing that - in Python 2.5, the 
'-m' switch should be able to run modules inside eggs as scripts, reducing the 
need to install them directly into the filesystem.

Cheers,
Nick.

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