At 01:14 PM 4/4/2009 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
So I was building two new packages for Genshi and encountered this using setuptools 0.6c9: Genshi-0.5.1-py2.6-win32.egg Genshi-0.5.1.win32-py2.6.exe Why does the python version designation and platform specifier arbitrarily change place? Should this be logged as an issue to make sure such filenames are consistent?
If either format is to be changed, it needs to be for a reason more important than just being "consistent", as tools exist that parse the filenames as they are currently coded.
Since .egg filenames have to be machine-parseable without ambiguity, their filename format is fixed, and was chosen in such a way as to make parts of the filename optional. Setuptools also parses bdist_wininst filenames and other distutils-generated filenames, however, and this is based on their current generating patterns (even though individual filenames can be ambiguous as to their meaning).
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