On Jan 11, 10:33 am, oj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > As is about to become apparent, I really don't know what I'm doing > when it comes to using eggs. > > I'm writing some software that is going to be deployed on a machine as > a number of eggs. Which is all well and good. > > These eggs all end up depending on each other; modules in egg A want > to import modules in egg B etc. > > It's not really practical to add the path to each individual egg to > the PYTHONPATH (although there's all in a directory that is in > PYTHONPATH). > > Do I have to add boiler-plate code to the beginning of all the modules > with these dependencies to check if modules are available and require > the eggs if they aren't? Or is there a way I can have stuff 'just > work' as it does in the development environment when the modules > haven't been bundled up into eggs? > > On a similar note, I can't seem to get the automatic script creation > stuff in setuptools to create scripts that have additional > requirements. I tried defining extra requires giving the names of > other eggs that will be required, and then specifying these as extras > to the console_scripts, but the generated scripts were no different. > Am I doing something wrong? Or am I just not understanding something? > > I'm muddling through getting this all working at the moment, but I get > the distinct impression that there's a better (correct?) way that I'm > not aware of. > > Sorry for such a vague posting. > > -Oli
I know when I've asked questions about eggs and setup-tools, I was referred to the Distutils user group. I would cross-post there for double the fun! http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
