[Python-Dev] [Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you (original) (raw)
Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Apr 10 01:16:20 CEST 2008
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At 11:48 PM 4/9/2008 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
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 easyinstall 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.
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