At 10:32 AM 7/6/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

I'm +0 on changing the name, as long as it's the *only* "do it this way because setuptools isn't going to change" issue.

Please note that I never said that. I was the one who suggested ".pydist", remember? I just don't want to have to complicate the pkg_resources directory scan to support a stupid name like "metadata", no offense to Tarek. ;-) I'd sooner not make the change at all, just because I doubt I'm the only person who has code that depends on the old name. (Consider the Linux OS packagers who treat .egg-info files specially at the moment.)