1:tocdepth: 2 2 3.. _changes: 4 5History 6******* 7 8.. include:: ../CHANGES (links).rst 9 10Credits 11******* 12 13* The original design for the ``.egg`` format and the ``pkg_resources`` API was 14 co-created by Phillip Eby and Bob Ippolito. Bob also implemented the first 15 version of ``pkg_resources``, and supplied the OS X operating system version 16 compatibility algorithm. 17 18* Ian Bicking implemented many early "creature comfort" features of 19 easy_install, including support for downloading via Sourceforge and 20 Subversion repositories. Ian's comments on the Web-SIG about WSGI 21 application deployment also inspired the concept of "entry points" in eggs, 22 and he has given talks at PyCon and elsewhere to inform and educate the 23 community about eggs and setuptools. 24 25* Jim Fulton contributed time and effort to build automated tests of various 26 aspects of ``easy_install``, and supplied the doctests for the command-line 27 ``.exe`` wrappers on Windows. 28 29* Phillip J. Eby is the seminal author of setuptools, and 30 first proposed the idea of an importable binary distribution format for 31 Python application plug-ins. 32 33* Significant parts of the implementation of setuptools were funded by the Open 34 Source Applications Foundation, to provide a plug-in infrastructure for the 35 Chandler PIM application. In addition, many OSAF staffers (such as Mike 36 "Code Bear" Taylor) contributed their time and stress as guinea pigs for the 37 use of eggs and setuptools, even before eggs were "cool". (Thanks, guys!) 38 39* Tarek Ziadé is the principal author of the Distribute fork, which 40 re-invigorated the community on the project, encouraged renewed innovation, 41 and addressed many defects. 42 43* Since the merge with Distribute, Jason R. Coombs is the 44 maintainer of setuptools. The project is maintained in coordination with 45 the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) and the larger Python community. 46 47