Sorry to nitpick, but Zope and Plone were not the originators of Python eggs, although they may have popularized them. The design was done by Phillip Eby, with

Sorry to nitpick, but Zope and Plone were not the originators of Python eggs, although they may have popularized them. The design was done by Phillip Eby, with funding from OSAF for the development of Chandler, not Zope. Much shade has been thrown at eggs over the years, and people bemoan the warts, but eggs and setuptools were better than what we had at the time in Python. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c11 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c11