[Distutils] Best practices on distributing documentation and examples with eggs?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Wed Aug 1 21:37:53 CEST 2007


On Jul 31, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 08:48 AM 7/31/2007 +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> But isn't .egg-info completely recreatable through setup.py?
>
> Not if you're putting other data there, no.  Chandler, for example,
> has an i18n framework that stores message catalogs and other
> localized resources there.

Um. Why?

That isn't egg meta data is it?  Couldn't that just go in good old  
package data?

Jim

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