On 12 Feb, 2013, at 9:33, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> > wrote: >>> PEPs 426 and 427 between them should achieve the first objective, >>> while the other parts of PEP 426 should get us a long way towards >>> achieving the second (with "./setup.py bdist_wheel" as the interim >>> build hook, pending the introduction of anything better in a PEP for a >>> clarified sdist format). >> >> How far do you want to standardize the sdist format? For the goals you >> mentioned earlier you'd only have to specify that an sdist contains >> a configuration file that says which builder should be used. It might be >> nice if the full PKG-INFO contents were also available to extract some >> metadata without invoking the builder. > > The sdist format already requires PKG-INFO
Ouch, it's glaringly obviously now that you mention it but I never noticed the PKG-INFO file in sdists before :-( > - it just needs to be > documented *as* a standard format, rather than implied by "what > distutils creates when you call 'setup.py sdist'". PEP 426 actually > takes a fairly big step in that direction already by declaring that > sdist archives should contain a PKG-INFO file that follows PEP 426 > (see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/#metadata-files) > > The missing piece is a standard hook for invoking the builder to > create a wheel. Currently, that would be via "./setup.py bdist_wheel", > but we want to get away from the setup.py format. I agree with that. The hook could be one or two new header fields in the PKG-INFO file, with a PEP that describes those keys and how the builder is invoked and what it is supposed to do. Am I understanding this correctly? Something like: Extension: pepYYY-builder pepYYY-builder/dist: bento (>=1.1) pepYYY-builder/build: bento.builder:run Ronald > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
