[Distutils] RFC : PEP 376 - egg.info

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon May 4 17:46:37 CEST 2009


At 05:23 PM 5/4/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>There's another point I was thinking about in PEP 376
>
>What about dropping the 'egg' part in 'PROJECT.egg-info'  ? and 
>replace it with
>
>'PROJECT.info'
>
>(and make the 2.7 version compatible with PROJECT.egg-info )
>
>I know it's a minor change,

Actually, it's a major change, since it means dropping backward 
compatibility with existing tools.



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