[Distutils] [Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Apr 10 01:16:20 CEST 2008
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 easy_install 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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