[Distutils] Best practices for creating eggs?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Jun 29, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 04:13 PM 6/29/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
>> Agreed. But in the absence of a standard, supporting package authors'
>> existing approaches, which work with other distutils mechanisms,  
>> seems
>> like a reasonable requirement.
>
> Anything that the package author installs as package data, or using  
> the
> data_files option to setup(), is included in the egg.  And if you  
> install
> unzipped, you should be able to browse the included docs.

Installation of anything but python modules and the data they need to  
function seems to be outside of the scope of eggs. There's nothing  
wrong with that, but just means that there is room for something  
beyond eggs.

As an example why "stuff everything in an egg" can't work for  
everything, PyObjC uses bdist_mpkg to create an installer that also  
installs additional templates for Xcode, those cannot be part of an  
egg because the egg will not be in a location where Xcode will look  
for templates.

AFAIK some future version of bdist_mpkg will install python packages  
as eggs, while still allowing installation of other stuff.

Ronald
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