On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> On Nov 17, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 17 November 2015 at 22:05, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> and >>> I wanted to give the Python SIG in Fedora the opportunity to try it >>> out and see if we might want to enable it in Fedora. >>> >>> Essentially, for things that have egg info that includes the >>> requirements and the name of the module, it makes it simpler to figure >>> out what how to install Python packages in a more cross-distro manner. >> >> Having a plugin to automatically generate appropriate upstream >> Provides/Requires to allow installation based on PyPI distribution >> names definitely has the potential to be useful. It was only the >> choice of "python2egg" and "python3egg" as the name that threw me, >> since that doesn't align with the upstream community terminology (the >> egg format is specific to setuptools and easy_install) > > This sounds like it’s actually use the “other” Egg (because for maximum > confusion setuptools eggs are actually like 3 different things). Right now > both distutils and setuptools will generate an egg-info metadata when > installing projects (though distutils generates a file and setuptools a > directory). However wheels install a dist-info directory. > > I don’t have a better suggestion for name other than I’d prefer not to bake > more things onto the “egg” terminology since we (Python packaging upstream) > are trying to phase it out. >
Is the format inside of the .dist-info directory the same as the older .egg-info and .egg-link directories? If so, it should be easy to add to read that information too. As for naming, I'm all ears for a better name, because if the "egg" name is going away, I'd rather it not continue to say that. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
