[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] .egg media type? (was: PyPI upload doesn't support eggs?)

[Ryan Tomayko]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
>> A derivative like "application/egg+zip" would allow the media type to
>> be associated with easy_install or other handlers while preserving
>> the base media type information (although I'm not completely clear on
>> whether derivatives require registration).
>>
>
> "application/egg+zip" would require registration.  I've not seen the
> "+foo" annotation style used for anything other than "+xml" yet, but
> this use makes sense to me.

Same here. I'm still trying to dig it up but I think I remember  
seeing the "+foo" annotation explicitly specified in the normative  
application/xml media type specification. But I'm not seeing it so I  
could be wrong.

Ryan Tomayko
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