[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

[Paul Moore]

2009/7/28 David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net>:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:55:11 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>
> wrote:
>> Yes, eggs have the same problem. That's one of the reasons they
>> don't get integrated into Python.
>
> Yes but egg_info is included in python...
>
> and the egg is not....
>
> Hence, what goes in and what doesn't isn't always that rational. I'm
> just accepting that for the moment.

egg_info data is in to allow "standard" (setup.py install and hence OS
package manager managed) packages to provide metadata in a
discoverable way. Using a format that is (reasonably) compatible with
setuptools is simply a matter of co-operating with existing de facto
standards.

Eggs themselves (as a distribution format) are just zip files with a
funny extension, and as such are supported by Python.

The infrastructure and philosophy around eggs (easy_install, the
various .pth file manipulations, multi-version installs, etc) are
supported by Python (in the trivial sense that they are possible) but
are not "blessed" by standard library inclusion, precisely because of
the issues being mentioned here.

Your package manager has the same issues as the egg infrastructure
(lack of integration with system package managers being the biggest
one) and so is not suitable for the standard library in precisely the
same way.

Paul.