[Distutils] Spec for the egg-info format

[Carl Meyer]

On 03/07/2012 09:07 PM, PJ Eby wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com
> <mailto:p.f.moore at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Is there a good spec of the egg-info (directory) format anywhere? 
[snip]
>     - Should filenames in installed-files.txt be absolute or relative (and
>     if relative, then to what)?
> 
> 
> That's defined by the appropriate PEP; setuptools doesn't yet support an
> installed-files log.

I have nothing to add except for here; installed-files.txt is not
specified in any PEP AFAIK, it's pip-specific (and generated by the
distutils install --record option). Generally the filenames in it are
relative to the location of installed-files.txt itself; absolute paths
will work equally well for uninstall (where the installed-files log is
used), but obviously become wrong if the installation were relocated.

All the files in .egg-info aside from installed-files.txt are generated
by setuptools and not touched by pip.

Carl

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