Re: [jokosher-devel] Managing extensions

[John Green <john thegreens co uk>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:29:06AM +0100, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> 
> Egg files are the standard Python way of distributing a module which
> requires extra files or more than one Python file all in a single
> package. It seems silly to me to do .tar.gz methods, because we'd
> basically be re-inventing .egg files ourselves. The issues of "when do
> we unpack them" are also a problem. Eggs are like Java .jar files. See
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs for details about
> them. Using egg files will make it easier to port to different

After reading that page again and using apt-cache I found the package
python-setuptools on dapper which I think is what I was missing. I'll have
look at this and have a play.

Cheers

-- 
John Green