> On Nov 17, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 17 November 2015 at 22:05, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> and >>>> I wanted to give the Python SIG in Fedora the opportunity to try it >>>> out and see if we might want to enable it in Fedora. >>>> >>>> Essentially, for things that have egg info that includes the >>>> requirements and the name of the module, it makes it simpler to figure >>>> out what how to install Python packages in a more cross-distro manner. >>> >>> Having a plugin to automatically generate appropriate upstream >>> Provides/Requires to allow installation based on PyPI distribution >>> names definitely has the potential to be useful. It was only the >>> choice of "python2egg" and "python3egg" as the name that threw me, >>> since that doesn't align with the upstream community terminology (the >>> egg format is specific to setuptools and easy_install) >> >> This sounds like it’s actually use the “other” Egg (because for maximum >> confusion setuptools eggs are actually like 3 different things). Right now >> both distutils and setuptools will generate an egg-info metadata when >> installing projects (though distutils generates a file and setuptools a >> directory). However wheels install a dist-info directory. >> >> I don’t have a better suggestion for name other than I’d prefer not to bake >> more things onto the “egg” terminology since we (Python packaging upstream) >> are trying to phase it out. >> > > Is the format inside of the .dist-info directory the same as the older > .egg-info and .egg-link directories? If so, it should be easy to add > to read that information too.
Currently yes. In the future we’ll probably evolve it and then they’ll drift apart. Part of doing that though will be defining a way to determine what “version” of standard the directory is currently using (with the current version being a not very well defined version 0 or something). > > As for naming, I'm all ears for a better name, because if the "egg" > name is going away, I'd rather it not continue to say that. > > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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