On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:27 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 August 2013 09:56, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > ISTM distlib is not yet that reference library - it's just another library > > for most people, judging from the low level of feedback I've had overall. > > That's totally fine. We just need to be clear that it's not the reference > library and is instead one implementation. > > Yep, there's certainly been a perception that distlib is the reference > implementation. Apologies if I perpetuated that. > > We do have a slightly different issue then, in that there *isn't* a reference > implementation for a lot of this stuff... (I guess wheel counts as the > reference implementation for wheel, doh, so that part's covered). People are > starting to write code to use these new facilities, so having an actual > reference implementation is important (IMO, that's one area where > packaging/distutils2 got in a mess, so I'm concerned we don't fall into the > same trap). We need people using the new stuff to help us identify potential > issues. I might see about making a stripped down library which only implements the PEPs and nothing else. > > Paul > > PS Apologies if I appear to be a little irritable on this subject. I have a > series of scripts that maintain a local cache of wheels for various projects. > I'm starting to hit cases where the wheels aren't usable because of subtle > differences in how the spec's being implemented, and it feels like I'm trying > to hit a moving target, which is what I thought having the wheel 1.0 PEP > accepted was designed to avoid. Can you send me a list (or post them here) of what issues you've hit? The biggest one i'm aware of is the scripts problem which is a fundamental problem with the 1.0 Wheel (or rather that any library with console entry points cannot be universal). ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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