Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style

``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
package.  This is a preliminary step to implementing "install
--single-version-externally-managed" for use with bdist_* commands and
Debian.

--HG--
branch : setuptools
extra : convert_revision : svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/sandbox/trunk/setuptools%4041670

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools.txt b/setuptools.txt
index 65b36bc2..ddccf390 100755
--- a/setuptools.txt
+++ b/setuptools.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Packages built and distributed using ``setuptools`` look to the user like
 ordinary Python packages based on the ``distutils``.  Your users don't need to
 install or even know about setuptools in order to use them, and you don't
 have to include the entire setuptools package in your distributions.  By
-including just a single `bootstrap module`_ (a 7K .py file), your package will
+including just a single `bootstrap module`_ (an 8K .py file), your package will
 automatically download and install ``setuptools`` if the user is building your
 package from source and doesn't have a suitable version already installed.
 
@@ -2181,6 +2181,10 @@ Release Notes/Change History
    that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
    were a zipfile or tarfile.
 
+ * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
+   ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
+   package.
+
 0.6a8
  * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
    with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
@@ -2434,3 +2438,12 @@ Release Notes/Change History
 0.3a1
  * Initial release.
 
+
+Mailing list
+============
+
+Please use the `distutils-sig mailing list`_ for questions and discussion about
+setuptools.
+
+.. _distutils-sig mailing list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/
+