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 can be packaged using setuptools (and use it to specify its dependencies) starting with 0.11.

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

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

Easy packages for setuptools can be found on ​Python Package Index.

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