1:tocdepth: 2 2 3.. _changes: 4 5History 6******* 7 8.. towncrier-draft-entries:: DRAFT, unreleased as on |today| 9 10.. include:: ../CHANGES (links).rst 11 12Credits 13******* 14 15* The original design for the ``.egg`` format and the ``pkg_resources`` API was 16 co-created by Phillip Eby and Bob Ippolito. Bob also implemented the first 17 version of ``pkg_resources``, and supplied the macOS operating system version 18 compatibility algorithm. 19 20* Ian Bicking implemented many early "creature comfort" features of 21 easy_install, including support for downloading via Sourceforge and 22 Subversion repositories. Ian's comments on the Web-SIG about WSGI 23 application deployment also inspired the concept of "entry points" in eggs, 24 and he has given talks at PyCon and elsewhere to inform and educate the 25 community about eggs and setuptools. 26 27* Jim Fulton contributed time and effort to build automated tests of various 28 aspects of ``easy_install``, and supplied the doctests for the command-line 29 ``.exe`` wrappers on Windows. 30 31* Phillip J. Eby is the seminal author of setuptools, and 32 first proposed the idea of an importable binary distribution format for 33 Python application plug-ins. 34 35* Significant parts of the implementation of setuptools were funded by the Open 36 Source Applications Foundation, to provide a plug-in infrastructure for the 37 Chandler PIM application. In addition, many OSAF staffers (such as Mike 38 "Code Bear" Taylor) contributed their time and stress as guinea pigs for the 39 use of eggs and setuptools, even before eggs were "cool". (Thanks, guys!) 40 41* Tarek Ziadé is the principal author of the Distribute fork, which 42 re-invigorated the community on the project, encouraged renewed innovation, 43 and addressed many defects. 44 45* Jason R. Coombs performed the merge with Distribute, maintaining the 46 project for several years in coordination with the Python Packaging 47 Authority (PyPA). 48