[Python-ideas] Python package files (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Mon Apr 30 20:10:14 CEST 2007

On Monday 30 April 2007, Adam Atlas wrote:

It is true that eggs do have many benefits for production use, but often while developing something, or using a package that you don't expect to use outside one project, or just trying out a package that you're not sure you'll use, it's simpler to be able to just drop a file into your project directory instead of having to sudo easy_install it system-wide. Zero-installation is nice.

-1 on adding yet-another-ZIP-thing.

Python eggs aren't always convenient, but they're easy enough to work with, and good tools to work with egg-based installations are appearing. Having another way to do this, especially something that will be turned into eggs for deployment, seems like a distraction. Differences between development environments and production environments lead to bugs, not ease-of-use.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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