round-trip from egg to code and back to egg

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Catherine a écrit :
> I'd like to use Scriptaculous with TurboGears on Python 2.5.
> Unfortunately, Scriptaculous is currently in the Cheese Shop only as a
> Python 2.4 egg.
> 
> If I had the setup.py that was used to generate the egg, I think it
> would be really easy to generate a new Python 2.5 egg from the
> existing 2.4 egg.  In fact, it would be gruntwork we could easily
> offload from the package authors.
> 
> The trouble is, an egg doesn't include setup.py.  Is there any direct
> way to round-trip a Python package from egg to installed code and into
> a new egg? 
 >
> I might be able to mine enough information from the files
> in EGG-INFO to reconstruct setup.py - reverse-engineering - but that
> seems unnervingly like work.
> 
> Three possibilities come to mind -
> 
> 1. I'm missing something simple

Probably. I'd say, something like unzip <your-egg-file>.egg !-)