[Distutils] RFC : PEP 376 - egg.info

[P.J. Eby]

At 05:54 PM 5/4/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>2009/5/4 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> > 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.
>
>well if Distutils 2.7 / 3.1 keeps backward compatibility like I said,
>that would give 3 years for existing
>tools to change..

Actually, writing '.info' files means that existing tools that expect 
.egg-info files or directories would stop working correctly *right away*.