[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Nick Coghlan]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:19 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why coming from eggs and not from the build tool provided by python
>> itself (distutils) ? I don't see what eggs brings - specially since
>> the format is not even standardized.
> 
> I don't think the "egg as a format" part has anything to do with this
> discussion. It's just a zip file with
> a specific layout.
> 
> What's important is what we store in the .egg-info directory (or file) which
> has two standards today (one in Distutils, one in Setuptools) but wich should
> get a common standard soon (PEP 376)

Yes, that metadata is what I meant to refer to rather than zipped .egg
files specifically. An egg is just one example of something which
includes that metadata.

Cheers,
Nick.

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