At 04:41 PM 4/25/2006 -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: >"Included are summary descriptions of the formats of all of the standard >metadata produced by setuptools, along with pointers to the existing >manuals that describe the syntax used for representing requirements, entry >points, etc. as text. The .egg, .egg-info, and .egg-link formats and >layouts are also specified...." > >I also follow the chicken Scheme mailing list, and initially though this was >a mistaken reference to http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/. > >Is there any concern that the use of 'egg' might cause some confusion?
Not for the software, anyway. As long as nobody asks EasyInstall to install something from that page, and as long as they're not in the habit of installing Scheme extensions to their Python directories, everything will be fine. :) Just for the heck of it, I tried asking easy_install to install some of the stuff on that page, and it griped about most of the eggs listed on that page not having version numbers, and then it barfed with a ZipImportError after downloading the .egg and observing that it was not a valid zip file. (It hadn't actually installed the egg file yet, so no changes were made to the Python installation.) So, also just for the heck of it, I'm tempted to add some code to easy_install to notice when it encounters a tarball .egg (which is what the Scheme/Chicken eggs are), and maybe have it explain that Scheme eggs aren't Python eggs, perhaps in humorous fashion. If I did add such code, you might even call it an "easter egg", I suppose... ;) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
