On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > Since Nathaniel seems busy, I've taken the liberty of drafting a > narrow PEP based on the conversations that arose from the prior > discussion. > > It (naturally) has my unique flavor, but builds on the work Nathaniel > had put together, so I've put his name as a co-author even though he > hasn't seen a word of it until now :) - all errors and mistakes are > therefore mine... > > Current draft text in rendered form at: > https://gist.github.com/rbtcollins/666c12aec869237f7cf7 > > I've run it past Donald and he has a number of concerns - I think > we'll need to discuss them here, and possibly in another hangout, to > get a path forward.
Now that I've had a chance to read it properly... First impression: there's surprisingly little overlap between this and my simultaneously-posted draft [1] -- my draft focuses on trying to only document the stuff that everyone seemed to agree on, includes a proposal for static metadata in sdists (since Donald seemed to be saying that he considered this a mandatory component of any proposal to update how sdists work), and tries to set out a blueprint for how to organize the remaining issues, whereas yours spends most of its time on the controversial details that I decided to skip over for this draft. Being an engineer, there are a number of these details that I'm tempted to quibble over :-), but I will restrain myself for now and wait first to see how the other thread develops and whether we do have general agreement on the points I wrote, since this seems like a complex enough topic that it could easily spiral become a conversational morass if we aren't careful to keep the different issues organized? -n [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-October/027360.html -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
