On 3 Jun, 2010, at 10:10, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> > wrote: >> >> On 3 Jun, 2010, at 9:50, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 31 May, 2010, at 19:10, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 19:02, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote: >>>>>>> Nope, pip's used --record on installation for years, and the above has >>>>>>> been true since the moment uninstall landed in pip. There are enough >>>>>>> different ways things can get installed that it's not surprising that >>>>>>> some discussions may have been confused ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> That may be it. Forcing --record in Python 3.2 would be a step forward >>>>>> then? :-) >>>>> >>>>> You mean in the current distutils ? Because distutils2 will have the >>>>> PEP 376 implementation, >>>>> where we create a RECORD file for each installed project in its dist-info/ >>>> >>>> I haven't carefully read the entire discussion, but do you mean that >>>> distutils won't follow PEP 376 during installation? >>> >>> If people use the old Distutils, (what I've called the current >>> distutils), and trigger an installation via 'python setup.py install'. >>> It'll use the existing code, so install it the 'old' way. >> >> I know that distutils in python 2. 6 and 3.1 won't support PEP 376, but why >> won't distutils conform to PEP 376 in python 2.7 and 3.2? >> The RECORD file from PEP 376 would allow manually installed package (e.g. >> "python setup.py install") to be further managed by a PEP 376 compliant >> install tool. This should be pretty easy to add if it isn't in already, >> although 2.7rc1 is awfully close. > > Are you thinking about a full implicit switch to PEP 376, or an > optional behavior ?
A full switch to PEP 376. An option to enable/disable would just be confusing, any option increases the mental load of developers (and anyone that just wants to install a python package to use its functionality) and in this case I don't think adding an option would be worth that. This would break current releases of tools that use the current "egg-info" information due to the different filesystem name (currently .egg-info, .dist-info in PEP 376), but those tools will have to be updated sometime anyway. Ronald
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