[Distutils] What role to eggs still play?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> starting a new thread, but this is related to the setuptols-_lite discussion, and the legacy formats discussion. In another thread Donald had a footnote:
> 
> 
> [1] We can tackle egg at a later point, when setuptools either has support for Wheels
>     or is less needed.
> 
> So I'm wondering -- does anything else (other than setuptools) depend on eggs in any way? I know why I pip install stuff, I (always?) get egg-ish things installed:
> 
> .egg-info
> 
> directories and all that. Honestly, I'm confused -- is that making an actual egg? or is that name simply a legacy name for package meta data?
> 
> In any case, does pip, or anything else, require it?
> 
> For my part, I find it annoying, name aside -- it seems that all the package meta-data should be there in the package source already (pypacakge.toml?)
> 


Part of the problems with “egg” is that the word “egg” ends up being used for slightly similar, but somewhat different things. The .egg-info is the installation metadata (and the newer format uses .dist-info instead of .egg-info). That particular footnote was speaking about .egg files themselves, uploaded to PyPI.


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Donald Stufft



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