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

[Bill Janssen]

> > Now, my next question is, given a Mac without setuptools installed on
> > it (10.4 with Python 2.3.5), can I install an egg on it somehow
> > manually?  Or do I need a different build technique for Tiger?  I
> > guess I'll ask this on the Python distutils list.
> 
> When you distribute the lucene egg (anywhere), don't forget to distribute 
> the lucene.pth file as well. It is responsible for letting Python know that 
> the 'lucene' package corresponds to the rather lengthy and complicated 
> lucene.......egg directory in site-packages.

I've actually decided to go a different way.  I see that your Solaris
binary is just a tgz file containing the "lucene" extension; I'm
copying that, instead.  I'll just unpack that tgz file in
/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/, which should do the trick.  Or
2.3, on Tiger.

Bill