by which I mean distribute On Feb 25, 2013 5:55 PM, "Daniel Holth" <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All I'm trying to say is do not add anything else to pep 426. There will > be other versions. This version can be consumed by distutils as of last > July. > Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > We all must realize that incremental improvements are not harmful. Delay > is > harmful; there has been no obvious way to make a Python package this decade > based on the idea that something better might be just around the corner or > that > the current way will be deprecated. > > > > The goal of this version of the PEP is to better represent important > setuptools metadata statically while imposing as near to zero cost as > possible > on the actual setuptools users. They will not welcome an unproven > alternative > that requires work on their part. Instead, we change things a little bit, > support setuptools / distribute OR "something else" for 5 years, until > "something else" is obviously, compellingly better. > > I'm not sure what work we're asking setuptools *users* to do: IIUC, the > setuptools files in .egg-info and the corresponding ones in .dist-info are > not > edited by hand by users. > > As far as I can see, having JSON-format files will not adversely impact the > workload for anyone, compared with the suggestion that Nick made > (embedding JSON > in specific parts of a key-value format) and which I was responding to. > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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