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

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> My site-packages has a confusing mix of egginfo directories and files.
>> Note that I NEVER use setuptools other than where an existing
>> package's setup.py requires it. In that case, I still only do python
>> setup.py bdist_wininst and install the generated installer.

If you end up with confusing mix of egginfo directories and files,
that's because
for the packages that uses setuptools in their setup.py, it patches
distutils and
to creates its own egg-info format.

>> So is PEP 376 going to be able to cope with the stuff I have installed
>> at the moment? If not, what's the point???
>
> If I understand Tarek's proposal correctly, then no, it will not cope.

Why that ? Can you detail ? On a system that uses only plain distutils
distributions, it'll work.