Closed majid-vaghari closed 1 year ago
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/discussions/wheel-vs-egg/
Wheel is a distribution format, i.e a packaging format. 1 Egg was both a distribution format and a runtime installation format (if left zipped), and was designed to be importable
We use eggs for the second reason, which wheels doesn’t cover.
Hello, I'm new to scrapy and scrapyd. I've noticed that scrapyd uses Python egg formats for deploying new project versions. Because I've never heard about egg files I did a little Google search and found out they've been replaced by the new wheel file formats:
So My question is why scrapyd still uses egg files? Is there a certain advantage to using them?