[Distutils] [Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:57:13PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:30 AM 4/9/2008 -0700, zooko wrote:
> >where I would prefer either:
> >    a.  Doing away with database files entirely and relying on the
> >filesystem alone to hold that information, or
> 
> ...which is what PEP 262 *does*.
> 
> Unfortunately, PEP 262's title is bad for marketing, as you've 
> effectively pointed out.  It would be better titled something 
> "package installation manifests" or "package contents files", or 
> something of that sort.

Heh, *package* appears in both of your suggestions.  Surely this means
tools that want to support installing script or data files need to
keep their own manifests separately.  This would greatly simplify any
PEP 262 style implementation.


Regards
Floris


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