On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com> wrote:
But what about the idea ?
How can we be sure that we won't want to change it again in the future?
well I think it's now or never, since we are defining a standard here for this directory.
As for PROJECT.info, that still doesn't say that the .info directory describes a project to me. Not that I like .egg-info, but I guess PJE's argument that it is a major change is valid and just .info isn't quite better enough for me to justify the pain (i.e. the name doesn't sound so right that no one will ever want to change it again).
Ok then, we will have to provide extra documentation to make people understand that the '.egg-info' directory has absolutely nothing to do with egg-the-format but is rather a metadata container. 'egg-info' was introduced with adding the whole 'egg' thing in Python in mind at some point I believe. And it seems that the .egg directory/zip file for projects setuptools provides will not make it into Python and is still very controversial (http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8he79/am_i_alone_in_feeling_like_pyt...) So removing the 'egg' part of 'egg-info' seemed natural to me at this point. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org