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    Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst`` · 1b77dd8e
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    format.  Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
    egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
    and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
    back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
    
    At this point, it should also be possible to "system package" any egg,
    complete with wrapper scripts, and at least bdist_wininst works now.
    More testing is needed for at least bdist_dumb and bdist_rpm.
    
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    branch : setuptools
    extra : convert_revision : svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/sandbox/trunk/setuptools%4041692
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