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The distutils — PEP 376 describes a new .egg.info infrastructure.

Please look at the direct svn link which has the latest version : svn link

  • make sure the new standard (which is compatible with all tools out there in its current state - see PEP 376) contains everything we need.
  • work on the uninstall story, by looking at PEP 262 and seeing how the RECORD file need to be
  • make sure the APIs proposed are complete
  • think hard to see if we want a reference install/uninstall script in distutils (I am +1 personnaly)

code prototype