[Distutils] [buildout] improving zc.recipe.egg's README.txt

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> However, given that the demo egg is a binary egg, I can't decide what 
>> the best way to do this is.
> 
> We could just show the contents of setup.py or simply explain, perhaps 
> in a footnote that the scripts are defined via entry points, giving a 
> link to the setuptools documentation.

To be honest, given the use of the demo egg all over the place, maybe 
it'd be better just to have it as a static directory in the distribution?
Is there any technical reason that means we can't do this?

>> I'd thought of using the zipfile module to reach inside the egg, but 
>> I'm confused as to why -py2.3.egg files are specified in the test and 
>> work even though I'm running with python 2.4 and there's no python 2.3 
>> in sight?
> 
> The examples have to show something, The tests have to be run with 
> multiple versions of Python, since multiple versions of Python are 
> supported.  An output normalizer takes care adjusting actual and 
> expected output for the version of Python used at run time.

Okay, so if I wanted to use ZipFile to reach inside an egg, what path 
should I use to open? Is the normalisation code available as a function 
anywhere?

cheers,

Chris

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