Paul Watson <paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com> writes: > What is the currently favored installation process for Python > applications?
‘python ./setup.py install’, using the standard library's Distutils library. Other third-party libraries build on top of that and are generally backward-compatible. > The last time I looked, it was eggs. Is that still true? I don't think eggs were ever the favoured distribution method. They are one *option* provided by Setuptools, but even then a so-called “sdist” (source distribution) is the favoured distribution format, installed using the above command. > Any good links to source of information. I would like to instill the > habit of using a decent install process for even the smallest of > utilities. This is a dream shared by many, but Distutils has much improvement to be done yet. Recently — the past couple of years — a lot of progress has been made on this front, and Python 3.x is getting many of the benefits; look up the “Distutils2” efforts for more. -- \ “That's all very good in practice, but how does it work in | `\ *theory*?” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
