[Distutils] SETUPTOOLS - Loading Eggs which do not have an egg_info
Ilias Lazaridis
ilias at lazaridis.com
Fri Dec 8 12:42:53 CET 2006
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 08:57 PM 12/7/2006 +0200, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>> ep_map = pkg_resources.EntryPoint.parse_map(dist.entry_points,
>> dist)
> By the way, I missed this line in your email before: you should *not* pass
> dist as the second argument here. That method is looking for a
> pkg_resources.Distribution, not a distutils.Distribution.
ok, this one works now (btw: either with "dist" or without it. but i've
removed it, as you've suggested).
> distutils.Distribution (and setuptools.dist.Distribution) represent
> *source* distributions that have not been built yet.
ok
> pkg_resources.Distribution objects represent *built* and *importable*
> distributions. They have different data structures and
> behaviors. distutils Distribution objects have data and methods for
> running commands and building, while pkg_resources.Distribution objects
> know about import locations, entry points, package versions, and things
> like that. You can't pass a distutils Distribution into *any*
> pkg_resources APIs, or vice versa -- they are utterly incompatible objects.
I have missed the existence of "pkg_resources.Distribution" totally (was
looking on "setuptools.dist.Distribution / disutils.Distribution" )
are "pkg_resources.Distribution" objects finally the internal
representation of eggs?
.
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