"eggs" are wonderful for no-hassle get-all-the-dependencies. However, they can trigger hands-off downloads from various sites. This is Bad News for corporate environments in which every download is carefully pre-approved.
A tarball with a subdirectory of "third_party" packages is ok. A web page simple listing the third party sites and the recommended downloads is ok. Automatically downloading is not ok. Is there some way in the eggs mechanism to just get a list of the proposed downloads, and let the user take the actions manually? -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
