[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[P.J. Eby]

At 10:11 AM 3/25/2009 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>... but Trac plugins *do require* egg files ... (AFAIK after reading
>Trac docs and implementation of plugin upload from /admin/plugins, egg
>cache for plugins ... and so on ...) and this is what I was talking
>about ... apps (e.g. Trac) depending *today* on setuptools (e.g. egg
>files ...)

Trac uses entry points to access plugins.  Those plugins do not 
require .egg files, unless Trac specifically wrote code of their own 
that requires .egg files.

If you install a plugin from source using pip or a system package 
manager, no .egg file is involved -- you'll have an .egg-info 
directory instead, alongside the installed code.  The pkg_resources 
API for accessing entry points works with either .egg files or 
.egg-info directories.