Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module) At 09:53 AM 3/21/2008 -0600, zooko wrote:
>Um, isn't this tool called "unzip"?  I have done this -- accessed the
>source code -- many times, and unzip suffices.
>
>I don't know what else would be required in order to make an egg into
>"a standard distutils-style installation".

You also have to rename the EGG-INFO directory to a .egg-info file of 
the same basename as the original .egg; otherwise, pkg_resources and 
other runtime access to the egg won't know it's installed.

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