> Yea, it's totally about keywords and that's just not an example of a larger > problem (like embedding little mini json documents) and what we need is > another competing standard all because of a legacy file format for a file > that barely anything uses right now (which makes it the ideal time _to_ > replace it, before it starts being actively used in a widespread fashion).
We need approximately five fields: Name Version Provides-Extra Requires-Dist Setup-Requires-Dist the rest are useless, never need to be parsed by anyone, or are already sent to pypi as a dict. We need the environment markers language. We need the requirements specifiers >= 4.0.0, < 9. Define the JSON serialization and we'll have this format converted in 50 lines of code or less. It's that easy. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
