On October 5, 2015 at 12:05:53 PM, Daniel Holth ([email protected]) wrote: > sdists work well most of the time. Some problems > > 1 - hard to depend on something setup.py must import > 2 - hard to use non-distutils build system due to the first problem and a > poorly defined command line interface > 3 - have to regenerate metadata to get dependencies > > Assume we are not ever going to be able to remove support for pip install > git+https:// or the current sdist. > > So you need new-sdist for 3, but could add 1 & 2 within the current > framework by using an elaborate generic setup.py or by adding a measurable > amount of complexity to pip. Perhaps the underlying code for 1 & 2 is > needed to implement features desired in new-sdist. >
I'm not opposed to layering things ontop of the current sdist format in the interim to solve problems that currently exist until a better solution can be done. That's not what this PEP idea was though, it was creating a whole new sdist. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
