[pylucene-dev] how to build a PyLucene egg?

[Andi Vajda]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> #!/bin/csh
>>
>> echo "building PyLucene egg..."
>> cd /tmp
>> tar xvfz /prereqs/PyLucene-*.tar.gz
>> cd ./PyLucene-*/jcc
>> /usr/bin/python setup.py build
>> cd ..
>> setenv PYTHONPATH ./jcc/build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5
>> make PREFIX_PYTHON=/usr ANT=ant PYTHON=/usr/bin/python JCC="/usr/bin/python ./jcc/build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/jcc/__init__.py" NUM_FILES=1 compile
>
> Hmmm.  Contrary to the JCC README, this does not result in an egg.
> The .so file gets built, but no packaging is done.

What's the quote ?

An egg is only built by setuptools which is imported when it is found.
The only control over egg-or-not I have is whether I import setuptools 
instead of distutils as is done on jcc's setup.py and python.py when 
building extensions with jcc.

Andi..