[Distutils] python version information in .egg-info directory name

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:49 PM 7/3/2006 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby writes:
> > At 10:28 PM 6/9/2006 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > >Phillip J. Eby writes:
> > > > At 09:51 PM 6/9/2006 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > > >Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >when installing an egg in a system-installed python version, then you
> > > > >do have another python version information in the egg_info directory
> > > > >name (py2.x). Is it possible or advisable to exclude that information
> > > > >from the name? At least I know that I'm installing into
> > > > >/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages.
> > > >
> > > > I don't understand your question.  There is no 'egg_info' 
> directory.  Are
> > > > you talking about a .egg/EGG-INFO directory or an '.egg-info' 
> directory?
> > >
> > >sorry,
> > >
> > >   /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6b2-py2.3.egg-info
> > >
> > >would it be safe to rename that to
> > >
> > >   /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6b2.egg-info
> > >
> > >without loosing functionality?
> >
> > Yes.
>
>what about installing the .egg-info directory without version
>information when --single-version-externally-managed is used?

Note that the .pyc files will be built for a specific Python version; 
that's why the version number is there.  Not including the version number 
won't magically make it work with other Python versions.


>Another unrelated thing: Debian is supposed to ship the source code
>for binaries, but it's not included in the package for cli.exe and
>gui.exe. Could you point me to the source code and/or include it in
>the next release?

It's included in the source release, along with all the documentation.  The 
file you're looking for is 'launcher.c'.  Of course, the .exe files aren't 
used on non-Windows platforms anyway.