On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > Egg-the-format is what we are recreating in distutils, isn't it?
for the .egg-info format yes, but the .egg format is not in the plan. (that what I called egg-the-format but I was wrong since .egg-info is also called a format in setuptools doc) but what is really is (even if it's part of the egg format) is a metadata container, (also present in .egg/EGG-INFO) > Obviously > some people are unhappy with some things related to packaging, but I don't > think egg-the-format is something people actually mind (if they know what it > is). Of course few people really know what the format is, or are able to > distinguish it from other parts of the Setuptools stack, but that doesn't > change just because you rename the extension. Eggs don't even carry any > particular naming attachment to Setuptools. Sure that makes sense, Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
