[Distutils] .egg-info metadata

[Erik Bray]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> This is no more guesswork than the PyPI /simple index discovery protocol is.
>
> You have zero idea what's at the end of a URL link. You're just hoping
> it's the file you expect.

That's not really something the average science user is going to care
about.  All they care is that when they run `setup.py install` like I
told them to it installs the package and gets all the right versions
of the dependencies, some of which may not be on PyPI, or have been
repackaged for some reason because the official package that is on
PyPI was created by someone who doesn't know what they're doing and
isn't inclined to fix it.

Erik