I want to poke myself in the eye every time I have to edit json by hand. Especially the description field. On Mar 26, 2013 5:17 PM, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> > On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am -1 on renaming anything unless it solves a technical problem. > > Forever after we will have to explain "well, it used to be called X, > > now it's called Y..." > > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:08 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> I think PKG-INFO is a highly human-editable format. > >>> > >>> That doesn't mean you necessarily want to edit it yourself; notably, > >>> there will likely be some redundancy between the description in the > >>> file and other files like the README. > >>> > >>> Also, today one of the key use cases people have for custom code in > >>> setup.py is to pull the package version from a __version__ attribute > >>> in a module. (Which is evil, of course, but people do it anyway.) > >>> > >>> But it might be worth adding a setuptools feature to pull metadata > >>> from PKG-INFO (or DIST-INFO) instead of generating a new one, to see > >>> what people think of using PKG-INFO first, other files second. In > >>> principle, one could reduce a setup.py to just "from setuptools import > >>> setup_distinfo; setup_distinfo()" or some such. > >> > >> In other words, using d2to1 and only for `setup.py egg_info` (only not > >> egg_info but whatever we're doing instead to generate the metadata ;) > >> > >> Erik > > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > > Rename it and make it JSON instead of the homebrew* format! > > * Yes techincally it's based on a real format, but that format doesn't > support all the things it needs so there are hackishly added extensions > added to it. > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > >
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