I have some confusion over the name .egg-info. From what I understand,
Eggs are a packaging format that contain metadata. But if you take a
Distutils installed package and put a .egg-info file or directory
beside it, that doesn't make the package an Egg, does it?
To add to this confusion,
At 06:11 PM 3/23/2009 -0700, Kevin Teague wrote:
I have some confusion over the name .egg-info. From what I understand,
Eggs are a packaging format that contain metadata. But if you take a
Distutils installed package and put a .egg-info file or directory
beside it, that doesn't make the package
I recently made a very similar suggestion in http://bugs.python.org/
issue5480 -- .egg-info = .pkg-info.
It seems to me that either the new distutils should use a different
name for those files, such as .pkg-info, or else the new distutils
needs to come with a announcement that tells people
