setuptools and state of PEP 376

Originally reported by: cournape (Bitbucket: cournape, GitHub: cournape)

Hi there,

I was wondering whether the setuptools team were willing to support PEP 376 (adding .dist-info directories when doing python setup.py install) ?

The context: doing a python setup.py install for package foo and then later on doing a pip install foo does not work because the setup.py install step does not create a .dist-info directory, and in particular there is no RECORD file for pip to uninstall files. I would like to fix this as this has been a recurrent pain point in the scientific python community.

Also, what is the feeling around deprecating "egg dir install" so that by default python setup.py install would install foo in site-package/foo instead of site-packages/foo-1.0.egg ? Or is that considered too radical of a change ?

@ogrisel

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/371

Start by reviewing PEP 376 and the existing python setup.py install behavior described in the issue. Determine the scope for creating .dist-info and a RECORD file, and separately clarify whether changing the default egg-directory installation is part of the work; done should include an agreed behavior and corresponding coverage.