Re: [Pysparse-users] Pysparse installation problems

[Rob S. <rs...@MI...>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Dominique Orban
<dom...@gm...> wrote:
> I did try to wrap 'import setuptools' in a try/except but that had
> consequences when I did simple 'python setup.py install'. It created
> new directories and eggs. I'd rather leave it up to the user unless
> there is a strong consensus otherwise.

The egg-info directory does have a purpose: it allows the package to
be upgraded or uninstalled without manually hacking the site-packages
directory. What harm does it do?
-- Rob