[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

P.J. Eby wrote:
> At 03:18 PM 10/6/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Note how the package name is mangled... easy_install requires this.
>> The file name also doesn't tell you that the above is for
>> a UCS2 Python build. Again, easy_install fails with that information
>> added to the "py2.6" version marker.
> 
> Btw, every couple years or so I've sent out a call on the distutils-SIG
> to try to get consensus on a format for the platform tag information
> used by setuptools.  (The first time was before easy_install even
> existed.)  Unfortunately, it's rare that anybody contributes more than
> criticism of the existing scheme.  The last updates to the scheme were
> by Mac folks, who at least had a clear vision of what was needed. 
> There's been some win32/win64 discussion in the past, but no proposals
> or patches of comparable specificity.  Linux and other unices haven't
> had any concrete suggestions at all, AFAICR.
> 
> Anyway...  just saying that if you *have* a concretely implementable
> proposal about what to do with platform tags, please do share on the
> distutils-sig.  Platform tags are one area that's reasonably easy to
> upgrade in a backward-compatible-ish way; newer versions of easy_install
> can still recognize older tags, although new eggs won't be recognized by
> older installers (forcing people to upgrade setuptools in that case).

Here's a very simple Python version scheme we've been using
for years:

pyX.X_ucsY

with X.X being the major.minor Python version and Y being
either 2 or 4 depending on the UCS-build that was used to
build the egg.

The "_ucsY" part is not needed for pure-Python archives (but it
doesn't hurt using it there as well) and also not needed on
Windows, since Python is always UCS2 on Windows.

easy_install should first look for the full version string and
then fall back to the non-UCS one.

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