I've had the exact same experience as the author of this post. Eggs are great if you just want to install a python library. Horrible if you want to modify the l

I've had the exact same experience as the author of this post. Eggs are great if you just want to install a python library. Horrible if you want to modify the library or distribute a program. I personally use a mixture of setuptools and distutils2, and it's a confusing mix.