[Distutils] Utility to mirror an egg index from a Debian distribution

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:10 PM 6/15/2009 +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
>Thanks, I've just released a prototype:
>
>     http://pypi.python.org/pypi/van.reposync
>
>However, as I did not want to actually execute code contained in the
>tarball, I did something like this:
>
>     basedir = os.path.dirname(egg_info)
>     metadata = PathMetadata(basedir, egg_info)
>     dist_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(egg_info))[0]
>     dist = Distribution(basedir, project_name=dist_name, metadata=metadata)
>
>Unfortunately I had to play some guessing games to find where the
>.egg-info directory was.

Actually, if all you want is the name and version, I suppose you 
could parse the PKG-INFO, which is always in a set location in an 
sdist tarball or zip.