Setuptools

Setuptools

An output of easy_install --help
Original author(s) Phillip J. Eby
Developer(s) Jason R. Coombs
Stable release
28.7.0[1] / October 28, 2016 (2016-10-28)
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Package manager
License MIT
Website pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

Setuptools is a package development process library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects by enhancing the Python standard library distutils (distribution utilities). It includes:

History

In 2013, Distribute, a fork of Setuptools, was merged back into Setuptools 0.7.

Package format

"Python eggs" redirects here. For eggs laid by snakes, see Snake § Reproduction.
Wheel
Original author(s) Daniel Holth
Stable release
0.29.0 / February 6, 2016 (2016-02-06)
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Package format
License MIT
Website pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel

Python Wheels have replaced Eggs.[2]

Python Eggs are a way of bundling additional information with a Python project, that allows the project's dependencies to be checked and satisfied at runtime, as well as allowing projects to provide plugins for other projects.

"Eggs are to Pythons as Jars are to Java..."
— http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs

Package manager

EasyInstall is a package manager for Python that provides a standard format for distributing Python programs and libraries (based on the Python Eggs format). EasyInstall is a module bundled with Setuptools.[3] It is analogous to RubyGems for Ruby.

EasyInstall is not a fully fledged package manager. It cannot list local packages nor update them all. Pip and Python Package Manager (PyPM) are Python applications designed to fulfill a similar role as EasyInstall. The Distribute fork was created specifically due to the lack of progress in EasyInstall development.[4]

By default, EasyInstall looks in the Python Package Index (PyPI) for the desired packages and uses the metadata there to download and install the package and its dependencies.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "History — Setuptools documentation".
  2. ↑ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel
  3. ↑ http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools September 1, 2009
  4. ↑ Tarek Ziade. "The strange world of packaging – forking setuptools". Retrieved 10 October 2011.
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