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

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:43 PM 7/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>But if it's based on PEP 302 protocols and if the pkgutil code works
>with the sys.meta_path hook,
>setuptools could then provide its loader, based on its EggFormats and
>act as a provider without being broken.

You misunderstand me.  The whole point of putting .egg-info in 
distutils in the first place was to enable setuptools to detect the 
presence of disutils-installed packages.  That's what's broken by 
changing the name.