[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Chris Withers wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> We've implemented our own bdist_egg now which doesn't use setuptools
>> and will start to ship eggs in addition to our prebuilt format with
>> the next releases.
> 
> Egg-cellent ;-)
> 
> Any chance this tool is open source? Better yet, could it make its way
> into distutils asap?

mxSetup.py, the module implementing all our distutils extensions,
is available in egenix-mx-base which is open source:

	http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/

Here's current snapshot:

http://downloads.egenix.com/python/egenix-mx-base-3.2.0_20091006.zip

or as egg

http://downloads.egenix.com/python/egenix_mx_base-3.2.0_20091006-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg

Note how the package name is mangled... easy_install requires this.
The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for
a UCS2 Python build. Again, easy_install fails with that information
added to the "py2.6" version marker.

We're still tweaking the implementation a bit, but it's stabilizing
rather quickly.

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