Forwarding to the list for "chewing"... ;-) On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 10:08 AM 12/22/2005 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:

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The progenitor of Eggs (Phillip Eby) suggests that this is too implicit. He suggests instead that people who install packages should use a program which implicitly installs packages. The major difference between this and what happens in Basket currently is that packages would be that non-zip-safe packages would be "exploded" at installation time rather than at Zope startup time.

*And* you can get dependencies checked, downloaded, md5's verified, etc. at that installation time, too.