2009/5/4 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>:
> At 05:23 PM 5/4/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> There's another point I was thinking about in PEP 376
>>
>> What about dropping the 'egg' part in 'PROJECT.egg-info'  ? and replace it
>> with
>>
>> 'PROJECT.info'
>>
>> (and make the 2.7 version compatible with PROJECT.egg-info )
>>
>> I know it's a minor change,
>
> Actually, it's a major change, since it means dropping backward
> compatibility with existing tools.

well if Distutils 2.7 / 3.1 keeps backward compatibility like I said,
that would give 3 years for existing
tools to change..

But what about the idea ?

Regards
Tarek

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