On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:43:42PM -0400, Daniel Holth wrote: > Perhaps you would be interested in the Wheel package format's upcoming > public key signature system (wheel.rtfd.orgl#signed-wheel-files). The > (undocumented) plan will include per-buildserver, per-package and > possibly per-package-version signing keys via a pluggable trust model, > instead of the PGP model where a signing key is an e-mail address. Sounds really interesting.
> About wheel > "A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename > and the .whl extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a > PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk > format." > > A simple wheel for Package-1.0 would contain > > package.py > > Package-1.0.dist-info/METADATA (PEP-376, PEP-345 'Metadata 1.2') > > Package-1.0.dist-info/WHEEL (metadata for this build of the dist) > > Package-1.0.dist-info/RECORD (extended PEP-376) > > The bdist_wheel setuptools plugin and egg2wheel and wininst2wheel > allow you to create wheel archives without having to modify source > dists. Neat. I look forward to using this stuff... -- -E _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
