[Python-Dev] [Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you (original) (raw)
Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 00:48:57 CEST 2008
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On 09/04/2008, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> 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. If Python had eggs but no easy_install, maybe this whole discussion wouldn't be taking place.
(I know I personally like the idea of egg-as-jar-file, but hate the idea of egg-as-dependency-handling-tool-and-everything-else).
Paul.
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