On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 04:39:24PM +0100, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 24 Feb, 2009, at 13:33, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> >> 2009/2/24 Joachim König <h...@online.de>: >>> An other option could be to put the egg-info dir into the package >>> itself, e.g. >>> >>> zlib/ >>> __init__.py >>> egg-info/ >>> PKG-INFO >>> MANIFEST >>> RECORD >>> ... >> >> This would require setuptools and pip to change the way they look for >> the packages, > > Not only that, it also requires that the name of the distribution is the > same as the name of (one of) its python packages. I have several > projects where this correspondence is not present.
It also requires that a distribution installs a package. What about single-module packages? >> Indeed. Having an index file would make things a whole lot simpler. > > I don't see how this would make thing easier. An index file introduces > another concept and requires care to ensure that it doesn't get out of > date. An index file should probably a be private optimisation of a tool and not be required or standard. See also P. Eby's arguments about this. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
