GNU bug report logs - #4298
.egg files could open in archive-mode by default

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#4298: marked as done (.egg files could open in archive-mode
 by default)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:40:10 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Your message dated Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:35:31 -0400
with message-id <wahbvmsbjw.fsf <at> fencepost.gnu.org>
and subject line Re: bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
has caused the Emacs bug report #4298,
regarding .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact help-debbugs <at> gnu.org
immediately.)


-- 
4298: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4298
Emacs Bug Tracking System
Contact help-debbugs <at> gnu.org with problems

[Message part 2 (message/rfc822, inline)]

From: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees <at> pobox.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:58:42 +0100

Python modules are often distributed as files with the extension  
".egg". These are just ZIP files with a convention about the layout of  
the contents, as described in [1].

It would be nice if Emacs could open these files in archive-mode by  
default, either by adding an entry for the file extension ".egg" to  
auto-mode-alist, or by adding a suitable pattern for ZIP files to  
magic-fallback-mode-alist.

(Perhaps this suggestion will become moot when libmagic is integrated  
into Emacs.)

[1] "The Internal Structure of Python Eggs"; http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/doc/formats.txt

-- 
Gareth Rees

[Message part 3 (message/rfc822, inline)]

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 4298-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:35:31 -0400

Juri Linkov wrote:

> Emacs should support this regardless of the libmagic presence.
>
> Could you please try to open an .egg file in the latest CVS.

I downloaded a random .egg file and it opened fine for me in the CVS
trunk (not in 23.1).

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.