Why is there a folder/directory, named wxPython_Phoenix.egg-info, present in wxPython Phoenix’s snapshot builds? What is it its purpose? And, most importantly, do we need it in order to run Phoenix successfuly? What gives?
All Python packages that are distributed as eggs drop egg-info files
in the site-packages directory.� Have you never seen them?
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Bo�tjan Mejak wrote:
Why is there a folder/directory,named�wxPython_Phoenix.egg-info, present in wxPython Phoenix’s
snapshot builds? What is it its purpose? And, most importantly,
do we need it in order to run Phoenix successfuly? What gives?
-- Tim Roberts, Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Bo�tjan Mejak wrote:
Why is there a folder/directory, named wxPython_Phoenix.egg-info,
present in wxPython Phoenix's snapshot builds? What is it its purpose?
And, most importantly, do we need it in order to run Phoenix
successfuly? What gives?
It is meta-data about the package and will be used by tools like easy_install or pip. If the package had been distributed as an egg file then the egg-info metadata would have been inside the egg. Having it as an external folder next to the package is just another way that it can be presented. It is not needed to run, and now that I think about it a little I think that currently the egg-info in the snapshot builds is probably incorrect anyway.
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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman