[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Russell E. Owen]

In article 
<6a36e7290610031009o1e45cfcer1510e0a92ede9a38 at mail.gmail.com>,
 "Bob Ippolito" <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

>...
> There are options with easy_install to do all of these things. I'm
> pretty sure there's an option to download packages without installing
> them that people use to download the eggs (e.g. for transfer to
> another machine or archival), and there's an option to use a
> filesystem path instead of the internet for installing packages.

I hope so. I would love to be able to install packages from egg files, 
as it could simplify some local code development and distribution. I 
tried to figure out how to do it from the easy_install manual (which I 
do not find very clear) and gave up.

-- Russell