{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/1265","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/1265/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/1265/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/1265/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1265","id":21669782,"number":1265,"title":"replace `egg=` with `pkg=`","user":{"login":"qwcode","id":1052224,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1052224?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode","html_url":"https://github.com/qwcode","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"ededed"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2013-10-28T04:03:36Z","updated_at":"2015-12-03T02:40:56Z","closed_at":null,"body":"With the demise of eggs, the \"egg=\" url fragment syntax is only becoming more obscure.  \r\n\r\nWe could start supporting both \"egg=\" and a newer \"pkg=\" format, then eventually deprecate, then remove support for \"egg=\"\r\n\r\nIdeally, we'd do this in conjunction with setuptools."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/comments/161499190","html_url":"https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1265#issuecomment-161499190","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pypa/pip/issues/1265","id":161499190,"user":{"login":"qwcode","id":1052224,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1052224?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode","html_url":"https://github.com/qwcode","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/qwcode/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-03T02:40:56Z","updated_at":"2015-12-03T02:40:56Z","body":"thinking it makes since to close this as no fix considering the approval of PEP508.\r\n\r\nPEP508 paves the way for pip to migrate to the direct reference syntax for VCS urls (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#direct-references)\r\n\r\ni.e, this:  `NAME @ URL`\r\nnot this: `URL#egg=NAME`\r\n\r\none detail left hanging though is the use of the `URL#egg=name-version` format, which I'm not sure if pip has any logic for anymore?\r\n"}}