At 05:54 PM 5/4/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

2009/5/4 P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>:

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At 05:23 PM 5/4/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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There's another point I was thinking about in PEP 376

What about dropping the 'egg' part in 'PROJECT.egg-info' ? and replace it with

'PROJECT.info'

(and make the 2.7 version compatible with PROJECT.egg-info )

I know it's a minor change,

Actually, it's a major change, since it means dropping backward compatibility with existing tools.

well if Distutils 2.7 / 3.1 keeps backward compatibility like I said, that would give 3 years for existing tools to change..

Actually, writing '.info' files means that existing tools that expect .egg-info files or directories would stop working correctly *right away*.