[Distutils] PEP 376 and the name .egg-info?

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Teague
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,

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 and the name .egg-info?

2009-03-23 Thread P.J. Eby
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

Re: [Distutils] PEP 376 and the name .egg-info?

2009-03-23 Thread zooko
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

[Distutils] No Win exe for Python 2.6 on PyPI

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Bobroff
Hi, I am relatively new to Python and recently had to install 2.6 on a coworker's computer. Not having a Windows 2.6 exe on the setuptools page of PyPI caused me considerable heartache and hassle. I eventually found a copy of setuptools-0.6c9.win32.exe which I had managed to build some