Don't worry about it. FYI the .egg-info (or .dist-info) cruft is necessary if you want to use certain setuptools features including console_scripts. Without metadata your module will be importable, but pkg_resources won't be able to tell that your distribution is available.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:24 PM Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/19/2015 02:57 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > ... if > > you want a single-file executable, you should be using zipapp (the > > zipapp module is new in 3.5, but zipping up the correct directory > > structure has been supported for ages). > > You're right, I don't really need the egg format for what I'm doing. > However, setuptools + setup.py is a familiar idiom like make + Makefile > or ant + build.xml. > > So add a bdist_zip target and have it output a .zip without egg-info > cruft instead of making people like me reinvent the wheel every !@#$ing > time. Even if the wheel is as simple as piping glob.glob into a zipfile > -- which it never is IRL. > > -- > Dimitri Maziuk > Programmer/sysadmin > BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu > >
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