requested hack: plugin to export eggs

[Jeff Hammel]

trac already has such niceties as downloading the zipped source, etc. if the source is a python package (that is, there is a setup.py in the repository), it would be nice to have a plugin that exports eggs for download. the plugin will make the egg for you and make it available for download. this is probably easy to do, maybe less easy to get working really well

[Noah Kantrowitz]

This is not possible to do in a secure manner as building the egg requires executing setup.py, which could possibly contain malicious code. The only safe way to do this is for the author to build the eggs and upload them, which is what the setup.py upload command does (uploads to PyPI, not here).