[PLUG] "Egg" package for linux software?

[Aaron Burt]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:27:33PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   What is an "egg" package for linux software? Google is not being very
> helpful.

Googling for egg package linux got me this info:

"Eggs are to Pythons as Jars are to Java..."
  -- http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs

They are zipfiles containing a Python app and its dependencies.  Looks
to be kind of an alternative to .pyc files and frozen binaries.

Now I know something I didn't 5 minutes ago,
  Aaron