Yo All! Hal suggested that commonts on issue 840 be moved here.
https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/issues/840 Hal also asked what are eggs and wheels? eggs were an archive format fot the distribution of Python package using pypi. They stopped accepting new packages in egg format almost two years ago. wheels are a newer archive format, now used by pypi. Both are ways to package up all the files for a Python packet. Neither applies to NTPSec as the python parts have no use without the matching ntpd daemon. NTPSec has been using the .egg-info file as a standard manifest for its Python parts. But since eggs are gone, the tools to use .egg-info files are also gone. So there is not point in NTPsec providing them anymore. There is a new standard way to include manifest and licensing info, it is part of the wheels format. That is to put some standardized file in a .dist-info directory. My idea is that we should get rid of our .egg-info file and more to the .dist-info "standard". If you look in your /usr/lib/python*/ directories you will see almost all packages do that now. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
