Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:19 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why coming from eggs and not from the build tool provided by python >> itself (distutils) ? I don't see what eggs brings - specially since >> the format is not even standardized. > > I don't think the "egg as a format" part has anything to do with this > discussion. It's just a zip file with > a specific layout. > > What's important is what we store in the .egg-info directory (or file) which > has two standards today (one in Distutils, one in Setuptools) but wich should > get a common standard soon (PEP 376)
Yes, that metadata is what I meant to refer to rather than zipped .egg files specifically. An egg is just one example of something which includes that metadata. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
