[Python-Dev] PEP 376

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:41 AM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> Yes and no.  Not providing uninstall support is reasonable, but the PEP also
> has features to query packages in general.
>
> (There's also no technical reason why comparable manifest and uninstall
> support can't be provided for .egg files and directoriees, since they
> already have an implicit manifest: their contents.  However, since I'm not
> currently possessed of the time to provide a patch myself, I'm not going to
> lobby for this as a feature.)
>

Yes that's not technical : I am in favor of keeping a single format. I
don't see but confusion in keeping several formats,