Gisle Vanem <gisle.va...@gmail.com> writes: > ... > All this *.dist-info stuff is alien stuff to me, but I guess > 'pip install --upgrade' uses these?
Most of "pip" is using this. They contain important meta information (e.g. version number, dependencies, overview information, ...) about a distribution not directly used by Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list