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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

get_metadata : http://bugs.python.org/issue4908

Distutils/StandardizeEggInfo (last edited 2009-04-22 08:56:08 by tarek)