= !SetupTools =

[http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools setuptools] is a package aiming at building better Python packages, namely Python "eggs".

Trac support [TracPlugins plugins] packaged as eggs, since [milestone:0.9].

Trac itself will be able to be packaged using setuptools (and use it for specifying its dependencies), starting with [milestone: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 [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ cheeseshop].

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See also: TracDev/Proposals/Setuptools, [source:sandbox/setuptools]