I'm -1 on changing the name. For better or worse setuptools is the
elephant in the room w.r.t. package management and it would IMHO be
better to stay compatible (even if the stdlib only implements a subset
of setuptools/pkg_resources)
Ronald
On 5 jul 2009, at 23:10, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
2009/7/5 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>:
If you want a
clearer name, '.pydist' or some such would at least be reasonably
specific.
(It'd still have a backward compatibility problem, but at least then
there'd be some benefit to the name change.)
I do find "DIST_NAME.metadata" well-named and specific. But I guess
that's just
bikeshedding :)
pydist has the advantage of both being more intuitive than 'egginfo'
while still making it clear that this is Python related metadata
rather
than, say, something added by an OS packaging utility. So no, I don't
think it's bikeshedding:
'metadata': accurate but generic. Not clear that it relates to Python
specifically (except that it happens to stored in a Python related
directory)
'egginfo': accurate, specific and serves as a good mnemonic. However,
use of the 'egg' jargon means that someone is unlikely to guess what
it
means without being told, and it's less obvious that this is Python
related
'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).
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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