John Nagle wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Stef Mientki schrieb: >> >>> hello, >>> >>> after 4 months playing around with Python, >>> and I still have troubles with egg files. >>> Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. >>> >>> If I google on "python egg", I get lost of links, >>> which contains huge pages of information, >>> and I'm totally scared off. > > ".egg" files are actually ".zip" files. So you can > rename them to ".zip" and unpack them where they need to go. > This is usually easier than debugging "easy_install". > > John Nagle thanks guys,
I'm slowly getting the picture. Now knowing it's a zip file, and trying several egg-files through easy_install, I noticed different things, - sometimes the egg is unzipped and placed in the "site-package" directory - sometimes it's just copied (unzipped) to the site-package directory. My first conclusion that egg-installation didn't work sometimes, has probably to do with version conflicts between the already installed libs and the new to install libs, but I guess that's the benefit of open source ;-) So if that's all, the renaming to .zip might be a less obscure way of working. cheers, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
