Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Note, by the way, that those two things are the only essentials here, as
> best I can tell, and I've already stated my willingness to change *how*
> those two things get accomplished. For clarity, I will repeat yet again,
> in yet another way:
>
> 1. Egg-based projects need to install their published metadata, in a
> well-known location relative to the installation location of their code, so
> that it can be found by searching sys.path, so that it and other projects
> can locate the metadata for currently-importable projects, *without*
> needing to first import the project's code.
>
> 2. Egg-based projects need to be able to identify whether another Python
> project package is installed and what version it is, without requiring
> modification to that other project's code or needing to import it. (And
> this is independent of whether the depended-on project was packaged as an
> egg by its author.)
>
> As far as I'm aware, those are the irreducible technical minimum
> requirements for making an egg-based project work. *How* these
> requirements are met is quite flexible, as there are already three working
> layouts that achieve this. As I said before, I'm quite willing to
> implement a fourth. But nobody has been proposing anything that meets
> these requirements, because they're too busy trying to prove the
> requirements don't exist or are somehow not real.
[Note: I am a happy Debian user, though not a DD. I am also one of the
developers of a Debian-packaged Python package, and we're considering
using pkg_resources to implement certain new features. I swear, this is
like watching two parents fight. Anyways...]
I think one of the sticking points with the Debian developers has been
that the .egg-info metadata is being put into /usr/lib/... when
according to Debian policy and general UNIX lore, such should be placed
somewhere in /usr/share/ Would it be possible to treat
/usr/share/pythonX.Y-egginfo/ as a proxy for
/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ when searching for .egg-info directories?
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