[Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

[David Cournapeau]

Paul Moore wrote:
> If not, why do people distribute eggs rather than bdist_wininst
> installers? 

For python only code, I can see one obvious reason: you can build one
egg on your platform, and it is supposed to work everywhere. I may be
wrong, but I don't think packagers who care about windows a lot would
distribute eggs only. For numpy/scipy, some windows users do request
eggs for numpy/scipy (which we do not provide for numpy/scipy).

cheers,

David