On Aug 20, 2015 5:05 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [Catching up on distutils-sig after travel]
>
> On 13 August 2015 at 16:08, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > It seems like a reasonable effort at solving this problem, and I guess
> > there are probably some people somewhere that have this problem, but
> > my concern is that I don't actually know any of those people. The
> > developers I know instead have the problem of, they want to be able to
> > provide a small finite number of binaries (ideally six binaries per
> > Python version: {32 bit, 64 bit} * {windows, osx, linux}) that
> > together will Just Work on 99% of end-user systems. And that's the
> > problem that Enthought, Continuum, etc., have been solving for years,
> > and which wheels already mostly solve on windows and osx, so it seems
> > like a reasonable goal to aim for. But I don't see how this PEP gets
> > us any closer to that.
>
> The key benefit from my perspective is that tools like pyp2rpm, conda
> skeleton, the Debian Python packaging tools, etc, will be able to
> automatically generate full dependency sets automatically from
> upstream Python metadata.
>
> At the moment that's manual work which needs to be handled
> independently for each binary ecosystem, but there's no reason it has
> to be that way - we can do a better job of defining the source
> dependencies, and then hook into release-monitoring.org to
> automatically rebuild the downstream binaries (including adding new
> external dependencies if needed) whenever new upstream releases are
> published.JSON (JSON-LD) would likely be most platform compatible (and designed for interoperable graph nodes and edges with attributes). JSON-LD does not require a specific library iff the @context is not necessary. Notes about JSON-LD and interoperable software package metadata: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-April/026108.html > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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