[Distutils] PEP 376 comments

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ronald Oussoren<ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 8 Jun, 2009, at 8:16, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2009/6/8 Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>:
>>>>
>>>> I guess the problem only occurs if "egg_infos" is part of the public
>>>> interface. What if module A calls get_egg_infos(), then module B calls
>>>> get_egg_infos(somePath), then module A uses "egg_infos" assuming that it
>>>> still refers to the same set of paths.
>>>
>>> Vaguely off-topic, but is it only me that hates the abbreviation
>>> "infos"? It can only realistically be an abbreviation for the word
>>> "informations" - and there's no such word :-(
>>
>> Mmm, that's my frenglish, Sir  ;)  (If you see other weird stuff
>> please let me know)
>>
>> So I guess "get_egg_info" is the shortest, proper form ?
>
> The thingy we're getting is called an "EggInfo", which would IMHO mean that
> "get_egg_infos" is technically the correct name for something that returns a
> list of them. I'd interpret the singular form as a function that returns one
> EggInfo object.

I have a problem now with the EggInfo name, because of the repetition:

EggInfo.get_egg_info_file

I think EggInfo could be renamed to something better, like DistInfo maybe,
(not PkgInfo because it handles more that PKG-INFO)

Tarek