On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:07, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > But there is much more than what PEP 314 defines. Think about > everything which is in an egg, for example. How are files locations > are described, how are files outside site-packages described, etc...
What do you mean "how"? > As a concrete example, there is not enough metadata in every installer > so that you can convert from one to the other, even though this would > be very useful and definitely possible. This I don't understand. What do you mean with "installer"? What kind of conversions do you refer to? > For example, you can upload a distribution which does not even have a > name, or a version, easy_install tries to find tarballs by scrapping > webpages, etc... Well, if you like your distribution to be called UNKNOWN-0.0, then I guess you can. But you also get warnings like this: warning: sdist: standard file not found: should have one of README, README.txt warning: sdist: missing required meta-data: name, url warning: sdist: missing meta-data: either (author and author_email) or (maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied In my opinion that's your problem of you ignore those, but maybe I'm wrong. Convince me. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
