SetupTools

​setuptools is a package aiming at building better Python packages, namely Python "eggs".

Trac support plugins packaged as eggs, since 0.9.

Trac itself will be able to be packaged using setuptools (and use it for specifying its dependencies), starting with 0.11.

To check the version of any Python package including setuptools type:

!#sh
$ python
Python 2.3.5
>>> import setuptools
>>> setuptools.__version__ 
'0.7a1' 

You can find easy to install packages for setuptools on ​cheeseshop.

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See also: TracDev/Proposals/Setuptools, sandbox/setuptools