On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:12 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:01 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > On Sep 16, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > One thing that might be worth clarifying somewhere/somehow (not > > > particularly in the specs, though) is where is the best place to find > > > the "canonical" implementations of the various metadata specs. At one > > > point, distlib seemed to be taking that role, but I'm not sure it is > > > any more. Is that the role the "packaging" project is now taking on? > > > This is where I think it's a shame that this infrastructure isn't > > > being added to the stdlib - ... > > I’m hesitant to include any of this stuff in the stdlib as of right now. > It wouldn’t > > have helped you here since PEP 440 wasn’t approved until after 3.4 was > out > > so the earliest it would be in is Python 3.5. Perhaps once we have most > of > > the pieces fitted together and working sanely it would be a good time to > > figure out what, if any should be moved to the stdlib. > > I suggest to rather list good PEP-implementing modules/packages > on some "pypa" PEP-independent administered page and reference that page > prominently. Given that we have a mixed py27/py3 python ecosystem and > will do so for some more years, and given that things are still moving, > focusing on adding such to the stdlib is wasted effort IMHO. > there's a page for that in the Python Packaging User Guide https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/peps.html (each PEP has an "implementation" section) although that page might move to a pypa developer guide that lives at pypa.io (that's still in progress)
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