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

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:12 PM 3/27/2009 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>On 2009-03-27 17:19, P.J. Eby wrote:
> > At 01:49 PM 3/27/2009 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >> (*) I've had a go at this a few months ago and then found out
> >> that the egg format itself is not documented anywhere.
> >
> > It's been documented for just under three years now.  Here's where you
> > quoted the email where I announced that documentation, provided links to
> > it, and asked you to let me know if there's anything else you'd need in it:
> >
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064496.html
>
>Thanks for reminding me. I must have forgotten about that
>wiki page and instead looked on the setuptools page.

For future reference, you can also Google "Python egg formats" or 
"Python egg file format" or other such phrases, and it always comes 
up as the first or second hit.  Ironically, that's how I found it the 
other day myself, as I didn't remember right off what the wiki page 
name was.  ;-)