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
A while ago (nearly two years) an interesting paper was published by Jim Hugunin
(http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/) crowing about the significant
speed advantage observed in this interpreter running on top of Microsoft's .NET
VM stack. I remember being surprised by these results, as
