[Distutils] why do we still put version numbers into dist-info folders

[Alex Grönholm]

The question is, if we get rid of version numbers in the folder names, 
will it break anything we care about?


Daniel Holth kirjoitti 01.09.2017 klo 23:38:
> A long time ago pkg_resources was able to sometimes get the version 
> number only from the .egg-info folder name, and skip opening the 
> metadata at all when that data was not needed. We might always do 
> listdir() for path in sys.path and parse every METADATA on the first 
> pkg_resources import.
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:32 PM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi 
> <mailto:alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>> wrote:
>
>     +1 for getting rid of version numbers in the dist-info folders.
>
>
>     RonnyPfannschmidt kirjoitti 01.09.2017 klo 20:32:
>     > Hi everyone,
>     >
>     > a while now i have wondered - why put version numbers into the
>     dist info
>     > folders
>     > not only makes it lookup more expensive (need to search for a
>     > distribution->folder map)
>     > its also not serving a purpose, as the rest of the package is
>     > unversioned at the root of site-packages.
>     >
>     > in addition all those versions in folder names, that serve no
>     purpose,
>     > and create duplication/conflicts now creep into other peps as well,
>     >
>     > please lets take a note at setuptools - for editable installs it
>     wont
>     > put a version in to the egg info folder
>     >
>     > and imho thats the correct way to deal with data thats not actually
>     > versioned at that level where its being stored.
>     >
>     >
>     > -- Ronny
>     >
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