On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar
<sridharr@[...].com>  wrote:
[..]
> 
>  Since release numbers are specific to the installer (and repository), how
>  about having it in the .egg-info/INSTALLER file?
> 
>  $ cat .egg-info/INSTALLER
>  name: PyPM
> 
>  [package]
>  release: 2
>  url: http://pypm.activestate.com/..../python-ldap....pypm
>  pinned: True
>  ...

We specified an INSTALLER file already, see:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/#id33

But just with the name of the installer. The use case was to be able
to avoid removing a distribution
that was installed by another installer.

I don't think the extra bit ([package]) is necessary in the INSTALLER
file, because it's specific to the installer tool.
And, as long as you can read/write arbitrary files in /.egg-info, you
can put it in a specific file.

Regards
Tarek
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