[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Sat May 16 18:06:25 CEST 2009


Ok I've changed the PEP with all the points you mentioned, if you want
to take a look.

2009/5/15 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> Next, the doc for the metadata API functions seems quite sparse.  ISTR that
> I've previously commented on such issues as case- and
> punctuation-insensitivity of project names, and '/' separation in egg_info
> subpaths, but these don't seem to have been incorporated into the current
> version of the PEP.
>
> These are important considerations in general, btw, because project name and
> version canonicalization and escaping are an important part of both
> generating and parsing .egg-info filenemaes.  At minimum, the relevant
> setuptools docs that define these standards should be cited.

I need to find back your comments for this part, I must have missed
them. That's
the last part I didn't work out yet on the current PEP revision.

Regards
Tarek

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