[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 22:14:33 CET 2010


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 18:38, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> (Also, since Python 2.5+ distutils generate .egg-info files, all
> distutils-installed module distributions from Python 2.5 on are technically
> eggs.)

Aha... Stuck in Plone-land, I'm still mostly on 2.4. :-)
That means that calling distributions "eggs" are technically
incorrect, but mostly not in a practically significant way. That's
good.

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