At 02:44 PM 3/17/2008 -0500, Jeff Rush wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm +lots on someone giving a clear explanation of the meaning and interrelationship of the various terms involved in this discussion (setuptools, easy_install, pkg_resources, eggs, "package managers" as distinct from setuptools, etc etc) so that the discussion gets some much-needed clarity :-(
Right. But finding someone who can explain all this is apparently hard. All the owners of package managers seem busy...
In preparing for my PyCon 2008 tutorial on eggs and buildout, I spent three full-time weeks carefully going over sources for distutils, setuptools and buildout to discover those aspects not documented. I can explain how they work, although I'm not sure this is the correct forum. I'd like to first offer my slides from my tutorial, 150 of them with detailed handout notes on many of them.
Wow. I am skimming over the 44-page one on setuptools, and that is definitely the most comprehensive doc anyone has produced on it, aside from the official docs. Thank you!