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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