> On Nov 29, 2020, at 5:00 PM, Felix Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I just noticed that the new packaging macros create a .dist-info directory 
> instead of .egg-info.
> 
> Just to be sure: There is no incompatibility between these two, right? So 
> setuptools-based code can still retrieve all the package metadata in 
> .dist-info directories?
> (If so I can just update the package in Fedora as that dist-info change 
> itself does not break any backwards compatibility as far as other packages 
> are concerned.)
> 


Unless there’s something fedora specific going on, that should be correct. 
Upstream side, anytime pip installs from a Wheel it produces a dist-info 
instead of a egg-info, so if there was some compatibility issue, it should have 
been exposed awhile ago.
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