On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
As far as I can tell the only things that even use PKG-INFO is setuptools/distribute and we want to phase them out of existence anyways.
The only thing setuptools uses it for is to find out the version of a package in the case where an .egg-info directory or filename doesn't have a version in its filename... which normally only happens in the "setup.py develop" case. So no need to keep it around on my account. ;-) (Some tools do check for the *existence* of a PKG-INFO, like PyPI's sdist upload validation, and the various egg formats require a file *named* PKG-INFO, but AFAIK nothing commonly used out there actually *reads* PKG-INFO or gives a darn about its contents, except for that version usecase mentioned above.)