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Mon Jul 6 08:55:14 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090445.html

But as I said earlier, if we use a PEP 302-like loader, distutils will
be able to consume
several loaders, so setuptools will be able to provide its storage
strategy (naming and egg dir locations)

So I don't understand why you are saying that it will be incompatible
or get confused.

2009/7/6 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 07:10 AM 7/6/2009 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>> By using a new name for the
>> directory we *guarantee* that old packaging utilities won't get confused
>> by the new format (they simply won't acknowledge its existence).
>
> This is incorrect; they will get confused because they will think that the
> relevant package is *not* installed, and proceed to install a duplicate.
>  That's why .egg-info was added to the stdlib in the first place.
>
>

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