[Distutils] Design rationale for the egg format ?

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> As I said above, "it *also* scales better for performance" -- i.e., it's a
> secondary concern.

ok.

>  The #1 reason for separating metadata files is that it
> makes the addition of new metadata much easier than maintaining a single
> monolithic format.

Do you still think it is true today ? I am asking because AFAIK, there
aren't many packages besides setuptools which use those metadata ? I
don't mean to criticize the design, just to see if you would do things
differently today.

cheers,

David