[Distutils] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

[Neal Becker]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

>>> Essentially, one would have to contribute patches to all the
>>> distributions (we care about, at least), and then nag the respective
>>> maintainers to include these patches.
>> 
>> Not true.  You just need to make sure that "setup.py install" creates
>> that database.  With the proposed format of the database this is just
>> a file in the correct location - exactly for this reason.  Next time
>> the distribution will build the package that database file will be in
>> place.
> 
> How so? Are you /sure/ the packaging process even *runs* setup.py?
> And if they do, why do you think they will pick up the database
> file?
> 

In the case of Fedora rpms, the usual install uses setup.py.