At 07:34 PM 5/3/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
2009/5/3 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>:
> At 12:03 PM 5/3/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> The name of each file will have to be normalized: all upper case with
>> no extensions.
>>
>> Any opinions ?
>
> I don't see any point to the normalization.
To avoid different naming conventions like:
PKG-INFO, requires.txt, SOURCES.txt
And the problem with that is...?
> However, being able to install
> arbitrary files in .egg-info is currently supported by setuptools, and that
> capability is used by e.g. the EggTranslations project.
>
> I would therefore suggest that perhaps the ability to specify
file trees for
> egg-info inclusion would be better,
Are you talking about the directory that is built by egg_info in setuptools ?
or something else ?
I mean, do we want to have subdirectories in .egg-info ?
They already exist.
> if the goal is to eventually replace
> setuptools.
The goal is to provide an install_egg_info command that can be configured
without the need to replace/override it.
I guess, this can be done by taking part of the code done in setuptools
install_egg_info and provide a way for setuptools or another project
to add more files
through configuration.
setuptools simply copies a pre-built egg-info directory from the
source tree, that is built by the "egg_info" command. But people can
also put arbitrary files and directories there, besides the contents
built by the command itself.
Maybe this straight-forward sentence would work better:
"let's add entry points in Distutils" ?
+1
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