On Feb 7, 2008 9:03 AM, Leonardo Valeri Manera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> However, in order to do this /properly/, we need the egg filenames to
> include version information. I won't go into the details, but i'll
> just say that without that, we'd have to use our existing mechanisms
> for live (cvs/snv/git/etc) packages, and these would be
> unsatisfactory, both from a packager and a user point of view, when it
> comes to eggs.


Many eggs -- not all, I think -- include a 'version' file which contains the
current version number of the egg. A Web app could be written that would
supply the current eggs as is, but providing different URLs for them that
include their version number. Where version info is unavailable, the default
version '0.0' could be used.

This would be easy to implement, I think, and wouldn't impose any undue
burden upon Felix and the other egg-infrastructure maintainers.

Responding to Mario's comment, perhaps the major chicken version number
could be prefixed to the egg version. I don't use Gentoo but I can see why
they would want to have the egg-specific version as well.

Graham
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