Poetry: What is egg-info folder

[bartekpacia]

Hi! I've just started using Poetry because it looks awesome. I created a new project using poetry new ... and then poetry install, and a folder called <my_project_name>.egg-info was created in my root directory. I've searched for some info about info but I didn't find anything. I think it should be better documented, e.g I don't know whether it should be checked into git or not.

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[abn]

Hi @bartekpacia the creation of the egg-info is done by distutils as described in PEP 376.

The reason why poetry install causes the creation of this is because, poetry <= 1.0.10 relies on setuptools to for the editable installation of the project under development. This is the same if you were to pip install -e . a project using setuptools.

This and similar directories are generally included in common python ignore files.

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/218a941be92679ce67d0484547e3e142b2f5f6f0/Python.gitignore#L9-L27

This behaviour is changing as of 1.1.0 (including current pre-release) as we have moved away from needing to generate a setup.py file to enable editable installs. Although, it is a good idea to base your ignore file off the above file.

[bartekpacia]

Thank you @abn! This is a good clarification:)