Re: [Distutils] problems with eggs?

2014-01-29 Thread Marcus Smith
btw, there's a stub in the PUG for "Wheel vs Egg", if anyone wants to help fill that out. https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/technical.html#wheel-vs-egg On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > > On Wed, 29/1

Re: [Distutils] problems with eggs?

2014-01-29 Thread Vinay Sajip
On Wed, 29/1/14, Daniel Holth wrote: > Here are some of the problems with eggs that I tried to solve: [snipped] Right, and the wheel design has addressed those issues. I suppose what I was after was the kinds of problems that would arise from the imp

[Distutils] problems with eggs?

2014-01-29 Thread Daniel Holth
Here are some of the problems with eggs that I tried to solve: - Cannot be unzipped on top of each other due to the EGG-INFO directory. Wheels repeat the package name in the dist-info directory and are more like their installed layout, hopefully taking all the mystery out of the format. - The egg