When Python *Eggs* better than Python *distutils*?? What's Eggs?

[Xavier Morel]

seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> So basically Python Eggs precompiles and compresses
> binaries for you so you just have to load it to run
> your app?
> 

Nah, Eggs is a packaging system, what you don't have to do is 
compile/configure, because the packaging does that for you. It also 
handles things like pre-required packages (the packages that this 
package uses), even though that doesn't always work atm.

If you ever used a debian-based linux system, think of Eggs as a 
Python-specific apt-get.

The most advanced kind of language-specific installer atm is the Ruby 
Gems packaging and distribution system (http://docs.rubygems.org/), go 
check it for more insight of what Eggs wants to be (and I hope it'll 
evolve to be as good as gems) (and the install software should be named 
eggs or hatch, not easy_install, ugly).