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

[Ben Finney]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:

> 'pydist': accurate, specific and without the disadvantages of the 'egg'
> jargon
> 
> PJE points out that existing tools (setuptools, pip, etc) won't be
> compatible with the new format at all if it uses a new name, but I am
> having trouble seeing that as a *bad* thing. By using a new name for the
> directory we *guarantee* that old packaging utilities won't get confused
> by the new format (they simply won't acknowledge its existence).
> 
> So +1 for pydist as the directory extension in PEP 376 (for the above
> reasons).

+1 for the same reasons. Thank you for expressing them.

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Ben Finney