[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

[David Lyon]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:50:00 +0100, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

ok - I get it.....

It's all one big monty python comedy thing where things are quirky
and inconsistent - there's little continuety from one scene to the
next but you have to stop sometimes and have a laugh... because
to word quote from you - "funny"

Your whole email whilst perphaps technically correct is terribly
difficult for a software engineering person to follow.

Monty python was only meant to be a funny film for entertainment,
not a philosophy for building software from....

Why we can have the egg_info without allowing the egg is kind of
like having a chicken and egg story without allowing the chicken..
or is it the egg.. oh I lost track...

I think I need to watch the movie again to understand what's
happening here...

Let me go away confused... don't ask me any more questions or
elaborate with more answers. Thanks. :-)

David