On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to poke myself in the eye every time I have to edit json by hand. > Especially the description field.
I'm with you on that--I much prefer YAML (which is a superset of JSON!) but we don't even have that in the stdlib and it's not worth bikeshedding over to me. > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
