Using eggs

[Mike]

On Jan 11, 10:33 am, oj <ojee... at gmail.com> 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