getting django apps packaged as python eggs to work with django admin docs

i've taken over a django (1.1) project which has a number of django apps installed as eggs (in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/). This works fine everywhere except for the django admin docs. Trying to view the docs for tags or filters here gets me:

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/contrib/admindocs/views.py" in load_all_installed_temp开发者_JAVA百科late_libraries
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Exception Type: OSError at /admin/doc/tags/
Exception Value: (20, 'Not a directory')

where

e = '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django_tinymce-1.5-py2.6.egg/tinymce/templatetags'

so basically the django admin docs can't auto load the eggs because they are zip archives, not directories.

having done some searching i think my options are:

1. unpack the eggs in place
2. adapt http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#using-eggs-with-mod-python (i'm using mod_wsgi)
3. hacking the django admindocs code to deal properly with eggs

none of these are probably really difficult but none are exactly appealing on a production server. has anyone else dealt with this? what would you recommend?

Have you actually specified a directory writable by user that Apache is running your code, for the egg cache directory.

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ApplicationIssues#Access_Rights_Of_Apache_User