On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Güttler < > guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > > >> > I have a dream: For packaging and building package provides only >> **data**. Data is condition-less: No single "if", "def" or method call. >> Just data: json or yaml ... >> > >> > Even for complex packages. >> > > It's a nice dream -- but I think there is more or less a consensus on this > list that you really can't do everything completely declaratively. I know I > would find it very frustrating to have to hard-code everything up front. > I've seen this sentiment mentioned several times... Having only had experience with sdist-style packages which are dead simple to define, do you have any examples of some specific thing that's a pain to do declaratively? -W
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