[Question]: egg-info folder no longer installed

[hongquan]

[Question]: egg-info folder no longer installed

[hongquan]

@lgbaldoni Yes, it is because I switched from setup.py to Meson to build and Meson doesn't generate those info. I asked Meson author and got confirmed.

I switch to Meson because:

• pip recently has a breaking change, making setup.py failed when building Debian package.
• The translation folder layout which is supported by setup.py is not understood by Meson.

[hongquan]

Many GUI Python apps which are built with Meson also lack egg-info and seem not to have big problem.

[hongquan]

Side note, egg-info is deprecated by dist-info as a place to store metadata about installed packages. Unfortunately, both are not generated by Meson. However, there is a spec about dist-info that we can base to make a Meson plugin to generate it.

In the wild, there is already a tool, PyO3's maturin, which can generate this directory.