On Jun 04, 2010, at 01:10 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> writes: > >> On May 29, 2010, at 09:12 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> >That's the point I am trying to express: it's "implicit, embed, >> >installers in project's setup.py" vs "an installer globally installed, >> >knowing how to install projects that follows a given standard" >> >> I feel pretty firmly that the choice of installer should /not/ be left >> up to the project's setup.py. That's within the domain of the user, or >> by proxy, their operating system. > >That is the ideal, yes. We need to get to the point where the packaging >data stops being an executable program, and is instead purely >declarative metadata with a well-defined format and semantic >speification.
As Tarek knows I'd say: +1 :) -Barry
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