PJ Eby <pje <at> telecommunity.com> writes: > > Given that it's the same format, is there any reason to change the > filename? Changing the filename just means more code in Daniel's > wheel support code,
I'm not too hung up about the filename, and only chose REGISTRY because it is more aligned with the other filenames which appear in .dist-info directories. Since distlib is still in its very early days, I expect the filename can be changed without too much of an impact; the idea is to hide that sort of implementation detail behind an API. > and REGISTRY is an awfully vague name. Registry > of what? Registry of what ever you like - pointers to data, perhaps. Any use of the registry, just like entry points, is a matter of convention between consenting / cooperating developers and their applications/libraries, or am I missing something? "Entry points" are not always entry points, are they? IIUC, you're allowed to just define a module or package without the attributes appearing after the ":" > When Bob Ippolito and I first designed that system, we thought there'd > be a need to use temporary directories for extraction. Apparently, > there never was. Thanks for the info, and the feedback. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
