round-trip from egg to code and back to egg

[Catherine]

I'd like to use Scriptaculous with TurboGears on Python 2.5.
Unfortunately, Scriptaculous is currently in the Cheese Shop only as a
Python 2.4 egg.

If I had the setup.py that was used to generate the egg, I think it
would be really easy to generate a new Python 2.5 egg from the
existing 2.4 egg. In fact, it would be gruntwork we could easily
offload from the package authors.

The trouble is, an egg doesn't include setup.py. Is there any direct
way to round-trip a Python package from egg to installed code and into
a new egg? I might be able to mine enough information from the files
in EGG-INFO to reconstruct setup.py - reverse-engineering - but that
seems unnervingly like work.

Three possibilities come to mind -

1. I'm missing something simple
2. setuptools could be modified to include the original setup.py with
the egg
3. a script could mine EGG-INFO to regenerate setup.py - maybe such a
script has already been written?

Can somebody who understands eggs better comment?

Thanks very much!
- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Catherine a écrit :

I'd like to use Scriptaculous with TurboGears on Python 2.5.
Unfortunately, Scriptaculous is currently in the Cheese Shop only as a
Python 2.4 egg.

If I had the setup.py that was used to generate the egg, I think it
would be really easy to generate a new Python 2.5 egg from the
existing 2.4 egg. In fact, it would be gruntwork we could easily
offload from the package authors.

The trouble is, an egg doesn't include setup.py. Is there any direct
way to round-trip a Python package from egg to installed code and into
a new egg?

I might be able to mine enough information from the files
in EGG-INFO to reconstruct setup.py - reverse-engineering - but that
seems unnervingly like work.

Three possibilities come to mind -

1. I'm missing something simple

Probably. I'd say, something like unzip <your-egg-file>.egg !-)

[John Nagle]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

Catherine a écrit :

>Three possibilities come to mind -

1. I'm missing something simple

Probably. I'd say, something like unzip <your-egg-file>.egg !-)

That's generally the solution to "egg" files. They usually
do the wrong thing, and the "egg" system is still in beta.
They're really .zip files, so just unzip them and ignore the
"egg" crap.

My experience is that every .egg file adds about a half
hour of headaches to an install, since you have to figure
out why it didn't work, or why Python is still using the
old version, or something.

John Nagle