[Python-Dev] PEP 376 and PEP 302 - allowing import hooks to provide distribution metadata

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:13 PM 7/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>The loader would still work with "DIST_NAME.egg-info" directories for
>compatibility with
>existing format in the query APIs, but the Distutils install command
>would rather create  "DIST_NAME.metadata"

Note that this would then break setuptools without adding any 
benefit; ".metadata" is less precise and less unique than 
'.egg-info'.  If you want a clearer name, '.pydist' or some such 
would at least be reasonably specific.  (It'd still have a backward 
compatibility problem, but at least then there'd be some benefit to 
the name change.)