<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 19, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Chris Barker <<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" class="">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">starting a new thread, but this is related to the setuptols-_lite discussion, and the legacy formats discussion. In another thread Donald had a footnote:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">[1] We can tackle egg at a later point, when setuptools either has support for Wheels<br class=""></span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> or is less needed.</span></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I'm wondering -- does anything else (other than setuptools) depend on eggs in any way? I know why I pip install stuff, I (always?) get egg-ish things installed:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.egg-info</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">directories and all that. Honestly, I'm confused -- is that making an actual egg? or is that name simply a legacy name for package meta data?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In any case, does pip, or anything else, require it?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For my part, I find it annoying, name aside -- it seems that all the package meta-data should be there in the package source already (pypacakge.toml?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Part of the problems with “egg” is that the word “egg” ends up being used for slightly similar, but somewhat different things. The .egg-info is the installation metadata (and the newer format uses .dist-info instead of .egg-info). That particular footnote was speaking about .egg files themselves, uploaded to PyPI.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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