On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:18:11AM -0400, David Lyon wrote: >> This PEP proposes a change to the way that applications >> and libraries are installed in python, by using a new >> file called setup.info rather than setup.py. To hold >> installation information. > > This seems to propose a whole build system, while PEP390 only aims for > static metadata. Not restricting it to static metadata makes the > domain a lot wider and complicated as shown by countless previous > discussions on this list (several of these things have been outlined > before). Since the problem domain is so huge it will take a very long > time to come up with a stable version that addresses all issues > adequately, something which this PEP sidesteps solving the problem it > targets in a sensible and contained way. > > It certainly is a laudable goal to come up with such a build system > but I don't think it can be seen as *instead of* the metatdata PEP. > IMHO such a system should be using the static metadata from whatever > PEP 390 will become.
If wanted, I can go ahead I create a new PEP for David's proposal. And David can work it out using PEP 390 references maybe let me know Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
