The mini-sprint on Python Eggs that Bob Ippolito and I did was a great start; we now have both the bdist_egg build facility and enough of a runtime built that it's now possible to experiment with using .egg files to build and distribute Chandler components, including both its dependencies and parcels. While at the conference, Glyph (of Twisted) and Fred Drake (of Zope) expressed strong interest in using eggs as a basis for their own packaging and distribution efforts, so it should be possible to get broad support for the format, such that Chandler doesn't end up having to create its own solutions, and that Chandler will be able to take advantage of a rich supply of Python libraries distributed as eggs. If you'd like more information about the .egg format, see:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
There were, of course, lots of interesting discussions with OSAF and non-OSAF folks in between presentations and during the sprints. We talked about maybe doing a Spike sprint or show-and-tell for OSAF staff, but the main Chandler sprint was a higher priority during the sprint days, and there was really no time available during the conference days, but a few of us did have some interesting conversations over dinner or other meals. Interestingly, a non-OSAF person actually asked me if I was going to give a talk on Spike, and I also saw a non-OSAF person reading a Spike CVS log; it might have been the same person, but I only saw him from the back so I don't know for sure.
I think that's about it for things that other people haven't already reported on, which I guess just goes to show that sometimes procrastination pays off handsomely. :)
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