At 02:44 PM 3/17/2008 -0500, Jeff Rush wrote: >Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm +lots on someone giving a clear explanation of the meaning and > >> interrelationship of the various terms involved in this discussion > >> (setuptools, easy_install, pkg_resources, eggs, "package managers" as > >> distinct from setuptools, etc etc) so that the discussion gets some > >> much-needed clarity :-( > > > > Right. But finding someone who can explain all this is apparently > > hard. All the owners of package managers seem busy... > >In preparing for my PyCon 2008 tutorial on eggs and buildout, I spent three >full-time weeks carefully going over sources for distutils, setuptools and >buildout to discover those aspects not documented. I can explain how they >work, although I'm not sure this is the correct forum. I'd like to first >offer my slides from my tutorial, 150 of them with detailed handout notes on >many of them. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/buildout/pycon2008_tutorial
Wow. I am skimming over the 44-page one on setuptools, and that is definitely the most comprehensive doc anyone has produced on it, aside from the official docs. Thank you! _______________________________________________ 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