On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:00 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: ... > I'm not sure what else you'll actually gain by introducing > a new format. IIUC, what new-style metadata egg files lack can be > determined programmatically from their contents or the existing metadata > files, so there seems to be little reason not to at least consume existing > egg files.
I'm not sure whether you're referring to the distribution format, or the meta-data format, or both. I don't really have an opinion, myself, about the meta data format. Other have decided it's going to be different. <shrug> Having decided to use a different meta data format, it makes sense to use a different distribution format. While d2/p might support eggs for a while (not sure of that), we wouldn't want new distributions to be in egg format, so we need an alternative. (Personally, I don't have an issue with the egg format, but the decision was made by others to move away from it.) Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
