On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM, P.J. Eby<pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
My site-packages has a confusing mix of egginfo directories and files. Note that I NEVER use setuptools other than where an existing package's setup.py requires it. In that case, I still only do python setup.py bdist_wininst and install the generated installer.
If you end up with confusing mix of egginfo directories and files, that's because for the packages that uses setuptools in their setup.py, it patches distutils and to creates its own egg-info format.
So is PEP 376 going to be able to cope with the stuff I have installed at the moment? If not, what's the point???
If I understand Tarek's proposal correctly, then no, it will not cope.
Why that ? Can you detail ? On a system that uses only plain distutils distributions, it'll work.