[Distutils] [buildout] improving zc.recipe.egg's README.txt

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> El 14 Aug 2008, a las 13:24 , Chris Withers escribió:
>>> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>>> pkg_resources (part of setuptools, documented on the setuptools 
>>>> homepage) abstract the access to data inside packages, no matter 
>>>> whether they're in a zipped egg or not.
>>> Yeah, but it's the actual contents of setup.py that I want to show 
>>> given that this is supposed to be documentation ;-)
>> setup.py is never part of an .egg file or directory.
> 
> um? then what *is* it part of? ;-)

The source distribution (the .tar.gz file made by running 'setup.py sdist').

Eggs are binary distributions (made by running 'setup.py bdist_egg').
They don't contain all the files in the corresponding 'sdist', and
'setup.py' in particular.


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