On 19 November 2015 at 08:40, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Will "direct references" ever be well-defined? or open to whatever any >> > tool >> > decides can be an artifact reference? >> >> We can define the syntax without capturing all the tool support, which >> is what PEP-440 and thus this PEP does. > > > so, to be clear, what syntax for the URI portion does it define or require? > (beyond it just being a valid URI) > > it sounds like you're saying nothing? i.e. although PEP440 says things like > it "may" be a sdist or a wheel target or a "source_url", its wide open to > whatever a tool may decide is a unique artifact reference?
Thats my understanding from PEP-440 today. And given that an arbitrary url can contain wheel content, I'd be cautious about trying to place semantic constraints on the syntax (vs the content). -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
