At 09:39 AM 2/24/2009 +0100, Joachim König wrote:
could the egg-info directory be put somewhere else (as a configuration/command line option)?
No, since it's used to identify the installed location of the code that goes with it, ala PEP 262. In other words, sys.path is its own installation database.
If the location of the egg-info dir and the encoding of the python version and package version are only there for performance optimization reasons I'd suggest to really decouple optimization from file naming and having a caching directory that can compute an optimized representation once when an out-of-date situation is detected (e.g. when new packages are installed) making the optimization even faster, e.g. by having a file in suitable format instead of calling os.listdir() and iterating over the result.
That would introduce the possibility of the cache being out of date. See PEP 262.
(By the way, the Python version info isn't needed for this optimization; only the package version.)
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