[pylucene-dev] building a PyLucene binary release for Windows

[Bill Janssen]

> About --bdist, note that this flag wasn't indispensable since --install is 
> getting a distribution egg made as well in the 'dist' directory. All 
> --install seems to be doing in addition to --bdist is install this egg.
> 
> Please note that this distribution egg is a .zip archive that must be 
> installed via setuptools' easy_install script.

I thought setuptools distinguished between "bdist" and "bdist_egg"?
Both zip files, but bdist_egg is different somehow?  I don't plan to
require setuptools on my target machines; instead, my installer just
unpacks the files in site-packages on the target machine.

Bill