En Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:19:51 -0300, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gabriel Genellina wrote: >>>>> I don't know, but stock Python 2.5 seems to stick mysterious '.egg' >>>>> files in the site-packages directory when you install things. >>>> >>>> Which "stock" Python? Not the one from www.python.org... >>> >>> Yes, the one from www.python.org. >> >> Those .egg must come from other installed packages... > > My mistake, they are ".egg-info". And they certainly do come from > stock Python 2.5 from www.python.org and not anything else. They > are installed by distutils/command/install_egg_info, which is > automatically called by 'python setup.py install'. Ah! Those files contain metadata about the installed packages. See http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html , but I think the actual version is http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/ . Anyway, nowhere says that the PKG-INFO files are actually copied as packagename.egg-info -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
