[Distutils] using distribute instead of distutils

[Jean Daniel]

>> Can my setup.py support the
>> installation of the following files, or should they be included in
>> debian/fedora packages instead?
>> 1. few examples files?
>> 2. static html documentation files?
>> 3. man pages for the console scripts?
>
> The distutils doesn't really support installing such things well; you can
> certainly include them in your *source* distribution, though.
>
>
>> Also, I upload a source distribution (sdist) to the Python Package Index
>> 4. should I use an *egg* instead?
>
> No, it's not necessary.  Eggs are mainly useful as a drop-in-and-use format
> for application plugins (such as extensions to Chandler, Trac, and other
> plugin-enabled application environments), and distributing precompiled C
> extensions on certain platforms.  easy_install and pip can both operate just
> fine on source distributions, and if your code is only pure Python, you
> don't need to distribute binaries.

Thank you, I got it.