[Distutils] PEP 376 - critique - why more sub-directories within python aren't needed...

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:59 PM 5/19/2009 +1200, Noah Gift wrote:


>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:59 PM, P.J. Eby 
><<mailto:pje at telecommunity.com>pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>At 08:34 PM 5/18/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
>Why not keep the .EGG_INFO files in the site-packages directory?
>
>
>That's where they go.  Each installed project has its own .egg-info 
>subdirectory containing the listed files.  See the EggFormats 
>documentation for details.  PEP 376 is just adding stdlib support 
>for the .egg-info format defined by setuptools, and adding a new 
>RECORD file to it.
>
>
>But if this implementation is the same as eggs, then each egg 
>directory is then scanned and imported into sys.path, unlike normal 
>packages which are called via simple namespaces.

You are confused.  Please refer to the EggFormats documentation for 
the layout difference between .egg and .egg-info:

    http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EggFormats

.egg-info eggs look just like "normal" distutils installs, except for 
the addition of a "project-version-pyversion.egg-info" subdirectory 
alongside the code.  In Python 2.5 and up, distutils also installs 
packages this way, except the "project-version-pyversion.egg-info" is 
a file instead of a directory - as documented in the above documentation.

PEP 376 is simply proposing stdlib support for querying the existing 
formats, and adding a new standard RECORD file to go in that directory.