At 11:21 AM 11/27/2008 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
Is there any value in shipping these files when not delivering as Eggs, or
could they safely be just removed?
They cannot safely be removed, for several reasons, including:
1. They identify the installed package so that:
a) code which looks for dependencies at runtime will be satisfied, and
b) easy_install won't install a duplicate of the same package when
trying to satisfy a dependency
2. Packages which provide or use entry points will not function
correctly without them
3. Packages which include other metadata or project-specific data
(such as localizations, translations, etc.) for runtime use will not
work correctly either.
Thus, neither setuptools nor the distutils provide the option of not
including .egg-info.
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