19.08.2016, 20:25, Daniel Holth kirjoitti:
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.
What is not clear to me is who needs this. Is this not what virtualenvs
are for? Or could wheels not be used for the same purpose? What am I
missing?
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
<mailto: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
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