2009/5/3 P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>:
At 12:03 PM 5/3/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
The name of each file will have to be normalized: all upper case with no extensions.
Any opinions ?
I don't see any point to the normalization.
To avoid different naming conventions like: PKG-INFO, requires.txt, SOURCES.txt
However, being able to install arbitrary files in .egg-info is currently supported by setuptools, and that capability is used by e.g. the EggTranslations project.
I would therefore suggest that perhaps the ability to specify file trees for egg-info inclusion would be better,
Are you talking about the directory that is built by egg_info in setuptools ? or something else ? I mean, do we want to have subdirectories in .egg-info ?
if the goal is to eventually replace setuptools.
The goal is to provide an install_egg_info command that can be configured without the need to replace/override it. I guess, this can be done by taking part of the code done in setuptools install_egg_info and provide a way for setuptools or another project to add more files through configuration. Now, if entry_points were added in Distutils, things would be more simple to extend every command I guess. (like you have pointed) That's some other work we started here : http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/PluginSystem But my mail to python-ideas about adding a plugin system into Python didn't get a lot of interest. Maybe this straight-forward sentence would work better: "let's add entry points in Distutils" ? Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org