Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: > 'pydist': accurate, specific and without the disadvantages of the 'egg' > jargon > > PJE points out that existing tools (setuptools, pip, etc) won't be > compatible with the new format at all if it uses a new name, but I am > having trouble seeing that as a *bad* thing. By using a new name for the > directory we *guarantee* that old packaging utilities won't get confused > by the new format (they simply won't acknowledge its existence). > > So +1 for pydist as the directory extension in PEP 376 (for the above > reasons).
+1 for the same reasons. Thank you for expressing them. -- \ “We are not gonna be great; we are not gonna be amazing; we are | `\ gonna be *amazingly* amazing!” —Zaphod Beeblebrox, _The | _o__) Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy_, Douglas Adams | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
