At 11:48 PM 4/9/2008 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 09/04/2008, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be, if .eggs were a packaging format, rather than a binary > > distribution/runtime format. > > > > Remember "eggs are to Python as jars are to Java" -- a Java .jar > > doesn't contain documentation either, unless it's needed at > > runtime. Same for configuration files. > >And yet, Java doesn't have an equivalent of easy_install for jar >files, to my knowledge.
Actually, OSGi and Eclipse plugins and "feature sites" come quite close, and setuptools rips off many of its features from them. OSGi is basically a standard for additional .jar metadata to encompass dependencies and other info. _______________________________________________ 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
