On 3/30/09 4:04 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
On Mar 29, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: ...
You can compare this with dpkg and apt on Debian and Ubuntu systems: dpkg is the lower level install that installs one or more packages. It only checks if the packages you install break any package conflicts and if their dependencies are met. It is simpler than easy_install: it will not look for or download packages itself. Python does not have a such a low level tool
Yes it does, the setup install command.
That's not quite the same. If you give someone a .egg, .zip or a .tar.gz file they can't install it with a single command. For an egg you will need easy_install, for the other two it is a two step process of unpacking and calling setup.py. Wichert.