On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> But what about the idea ? > > > How can we be sure that we won't want to change it again in the > future?
well I think it's now or never, since we are defining a standard here for this directory. > As for PROJECT.info, that still doesn't say that the .info > directory describes a project to me. Not that I like .egg-info, but I > guess PJE's argument that it is a major change is valid and just .info > isn't quite better enough for me to justify the pain (i.e. the name > doesn't sound so right that no one will ever want to change it again). Ok then, we will have to provide extra documentation to make people understand that the '.egg-info' directory has absolutely nothing to do with egg-the-format but is rather a metadata container. 'egg-info' was introduced with adding the whole 'egg' thing in Python in mind at some point I believe. And it seems that the .egg directory/zip file for projects setuptools provides will not make it into Python and is still very controversial (http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8he79/am_i_alone_in_feeling_like_python_got_a_whole_lot/) So removing the 'egg' part of 'egg-info' seemed natural to me at this point. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
