At 03:37 PM 8/1/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >On Jul 31, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >>At 08:48 AM 7/31/2007 +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: >>>But isn't .egg-info completely recreatable through setup.py? >> >>Not if you're putting other data there, no. Chandler, for example, >>has an i18n framework that stores message catalogs and other >>localized resources there. > >Um. Why? > >That isn't egg meta data is it?
Egg metadata is data that belongs to an egg as a whole, rather than to any specific package within the egg. > Couldn't that just go in good old package data? Not if the egg doesn't contain any packages, and it's possible to ship a set of localizations as an egg, without it containing any actual code. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
