It is certainly broken.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> pje said: >> >> The "Feature()" facility was never completely implemented or >> supported, and even if it were, it should be deprecated now, as it >> will not be compatible with the coming packaging systems based on PEP >> 426. If you need separate features, use separate distributions and >> "extras" instead. > > wait, ok this is that thing. "separate distributions" means.... > > > SQLAlchemy-0.9.3-nocext.tar.gz > SQLAlchemy-0.9.3-cext.tar.gz > > ?? > > I think that's what it means. OK, not sure if I have to say this but that > would be...OK very very unworkable. A Python package distribution is a > *source distribution*. That suggests that one need to package up separate > source distributions in order to specify an option, is... OK very very > unworkable. (note by "very very unworkable" I mean "list of hyperboles I > had to backspace out because that's not why I'm here"). > > If a package has three flags, now there need to be *eight source distros*? > Really? On the plus side, I just used math. > > how does one even maintain this in source control? Do I have > setup.py.nocext, setup.py.cext, maintain a copy of 99% the same code in each, > then rename them when I do "python setup.py sdist" (since sdist doesn't take > command line options either!!) ? The suggestion is completely > inappropriate. > > I don't know the metadata format in pep426 well enough to comment (as I > wanted to use it one day and found that it seemed to still be pretty much > vapor), but I'll reiterate: these are source distributions, not binaries or > wheels or anything like that. A source distro has to build, and builds need > options. A metadata format that purports to represent metadata about a > source distribution and does not support flags is a broken metadata format. > > > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
