> > > However, people do know that I'm not planning to write all these spec > updates myself, right? I've claimed 426/440/459, but if you wait for me to > write the others as well, we're going to be waiting a long time. > > I know Donald already has a very early draft of wheel 2.0 in the works, > but I'm not aware of anyone that has even started thinking seriously about > an sdist 2.0 spec, or an update to the installation database spec - if the > latter could include an SQLite based caching mechanism, that would be > great, since it lays the foundation for allowing metaimporters to provide > installation database entries. And PEP 425 does need an update to cover at > least Linux distros (likely based on /etc/os-release). > > Would it help if I created tasks for all the things that still need to be > done in the metadata formats repo, and assigned the ones I'm actually > working on to myself? That way people could see clearly where we already > know work is needed, but nobody has volunteered to do it yet. >
that would be good. If you did, I would link to the tasks from the PUG future page.
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