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

[Paul Moore]

2009/7/5 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> 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.)

Personally, the filename doesn't bother me. It's the API name that I'd
like changed (particularly as the contraction "egginfo" is clumsy in
function names...)

Paul.