[Distutils] Design rationale for the egg format ?

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On 14 June 2010 07:59, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> - why does the filename encode some metadata (which python version if
>>the package contains extensions, platform specifier) ?
> 
> I believe that this
> is so that the basic metadata can be obtained as part of an initial
> listdir()

It would also seem useful to be able to keep a collection
of versions of a package for different python configurations
in the same directory without their names clashing.

-- 
Greg