Please see http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/doc/formats.txt for source, or http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EggFormats for an HTML-formatted version.
Included are summary descriptions of the formats of all of the standard metadata produced by setuptools, along with pointers to the existing manuals that describe the syntax used for representing requirements, entry points, etc. as text. The .egg, .egg-info, and .egg-link formats and layouts are also specified, along with the filename syntax used to embed project/version/Python version/platform metadata. Last, but not least, there are detailed explanations of how resources (such as C extensions) are extracted on-the-fly and cached, how C extensions get imported from zipfiles, and how EasyInstall works around the limitations of Python's default sys.path initialization. If there's anything else you'd like in there, please let me know. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
