2009/2/24 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: > 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 optimized representation once when an out-of-date situation is detected 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 That would introduce the possibility of the cache being out of date.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.)
ok so far, from the whole dicussion it seems that everyone agrees that the Python version is superfluous in the .egg-info files, so I'll update the PEP for this point. I'll also start to write more details about uninstallation _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
