On 28 October 2015 at 18:03, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Robert Collins > <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: ... >> 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.
Right - I'm avoiding changing how sdists works at all: that is not necessary for introducing the ability to run arbitrary build tools. > 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? Agreed, separate issues, separate threads :). -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
