[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

[zooko]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:

>> ... there seem to be many tools out there which are designed to  
>> work with the current egg metadata.  The fewer unnecessary name- 
>> changes we impose, the more likely the authors of all those tools  
>> will update their tools to interoperate with the new Distutils.
>
> None of them are working with any dependency-based PKG-INFO fields,
...
> Some of them may be working with arguments passed to 'setup 
> ()' (e.g., by running 'egg-info' in a tempdir and parsing the  
> setuptools-specific files), but such tools will have to be changed  
> anyway (e.g., to use the new PKG-INFO fields instead of parsing  
> requries.txt).


That makes sense. What I said wasn't that the tools would  
automatically interoperate, rather that using the same name would  
make it easier for those authors to start supporting the New Distutils.

However, I think I've expressed my opinion on the issue with  
sufficient thoroughness that I can now leave the decision up to you.

Regards,

Zooko