<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 September 2010 08:44, "Martin v. Löwis" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Also, and I understand enthusiasm tends to build up during<br>
conferences, but wouldn't supporting setuptools' egg-info directory<br>
again be a step backwards after all those months of discussion about<br>
the direction of Python packaging?<br>
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People have been requesting this specific feature for years; until<br>
now, I never understood what the need is. It's really a tiny feature<br>
and very easy to provide. I fail to see why this can be a bad thing.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Well, three years ago it might have been a good thing. :-)<br><br>With the distutils2 work very close to landing in the standard library, providing infrastructure that will cause tools to *depend* on the old formats sounds to me like a very bad idea. If tool use this metadata then it could well prevent packages that want to be compatible with these tools from using distutils2.<br>
<br>What PyPI does effectively becomes "the standard" for a large chunk of the Python world (which is why changing the format PyPI provides data in can be so hard). Now seems a really dumb time to bless the setuptools metadata format as the defacto standard after so much work has gone into replacing it and that effort is so close to completion.<br>
<br>All the best,<br><br>Michael Foord<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
Martin</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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