Packaging Python

Ian Bicking writes about packaging Python libraries. He says simply that his advice is: "you shouldn't".

I really can't say that I agree on this one. While I do see the benefits of packaging libraries with the applications they go with, I have to say that after years of working in Java, where JARs are distributed and need to be included in an application-specific classpath, I really find the Python site-packages to be a breath of fresh air.