But as I said earlier, if we use a PEP 302-like loader, distutils will be able to consume several loaders, so setuptools will be able to provide its storage strategy (naming and egg dir locations)
So I don't understand why you are saying that it will be incompatible or get confused. 2009/7/6 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: > At 07:10 AM 7/6/2009 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> 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). > > This is incorrect; they will get confused because they will think that the > relevant package is *not* installed, and proceed to install a duplicate. > That's why .egg-info was added to the stdlib in the first place. > > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ 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
