Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of SetupTools

Timestamp:

May 14, 2009, 1:11:56 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

anatoly techtonik <techtonik@…>

Comment:

how to bootstrap setuptools

SetupTools

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 = !SetupTools =
 
-[http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools setuptools] is a package aiming at building better Python packages, namely Python "eggs".
+[http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools setuptools] is a Python module that helps to compile, distribute and install Python packages by wrapping them into "egg"s. Eggs contain additional information to process dependencies, etc. Trac [TracPlugins plugins] can be packaged as eggs since [milestone:0.9]. Starting with [milestone:0.11] Trac itself can also be packaged using setuptools.
 
-Trac support [TracPlugins plugins] packaged as eggs, since [milestone:0.9].
-
-Trac itself can be packaged using setuptools (and use it to specify its dependencies) starting with [milestone:0.11].
-
-To check the version of any Python package including setuptools type:
+Installed setuptools version can be checked with the following commands (should work for other Python packages too):
 {{{
 #!sh
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 }}}
 
-Easy packages for setuptools can be found on [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ Python Package Index].
+Setuptools can be installed using bootstrap script from PEAK:
+{{{
+#!sh
+wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
+python ez_setup.py
+rm ez_setup.py
+}}}
+
+setuptools include "easy_install" script for convenient installation of packages found on [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ Python Package Index] including Trac with all necessary dependencies.
+
+{{{
+#!sh
+$ python -m easy_install Trac
+}}}
 
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