Eggs are the only way to add a zipped distribution to PYTHONPATH and have setuptools find the metadata (the Python code can be found with or without the metadata; setuptools does not discover *.dist-info inside zip). Eggs are used by buildout, especially in the unzipped into a directory form. And they could still be used for their originally designed use as a plugin format.
One of the smaller problems with eggs is that everything had the same name. *.egg-info or EGG-INFO is the predecessor of the *.dist-info format designed in PEP-376. You get *.egg-info whenever you install something with setuptools without going through bdist_wheel. On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Hi all, > > starting a new thread, but this is related to the setuptols-_lite > discussion, and the legacy formats discussion. In another thread Donald had > a footnote: > > > [1] We can tackle egg at a later point, when setuptools either has support >> for Wheels >> or is less needed. > > > So I'm wondering -- does anything else (other than setuptools) depend on > eggs in any way? I know why I pip install stuff, I (always?) get egg-ish > things installed: > > .egg-info > > directories and all that. Honestly, I'm confused -- is that making an > actual egg? or is that name simply a legacy name for package meta data? > > In any case, does pip, or anything else, require it? > > For my part, I find it annoying, name aside -- it seems that all the > package meta-data should be there in the package source already > (pypacakge.toml?) > > -Chris > > > > > > > > -- > > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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