[Distutils] How to prevent some .egg-info files being "touched" during a build/install process

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:05 PM 4/5/2007 -0400, Matt Good wrote:
>I typically add the .egg-info folder to the "ignored" files in version
>control since the files in there will be automatically regenerated by
>the build process.  Unless you have custom files that you put in
>the .egg-info folder (which I think is uncommon) you can probably just
>leave that folder out of version control too.

That's correct.  Only projects that explicitly put files under .egg-info 
need to track them in version control, because all the automatically 
generated files are regenerated from setup.py whenever any command that 
needs them is run.