On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 May 2016 at 17:47, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> It will likely get decided as part of the build system PEP, whenever that >> gets picked up again. > > Yes, but on 15th March > (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-March/028457.html) > Robert posted > >> Just to set expectations: this whole process seems stalled to me; I'm >> going to context switch and focus on things that can move forward. >> Someone please ping me when its relevant to put effort in again :). > > And I think that's right. The whole build system PEP issue appears > stalled from a lack of someone willing (or with the time) to make a > call on the approach we take. > > As far as I'm aware, the decision remains with Nick. With the possible > exception of Donald's proposal (which AFAIK never got formally > published as a PEP) everything that can be said on the other proposals > has been said, and the remaining differences are ones of choice of > approach rather than anything affecting capabilities. (Robert's > message at > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-March/028437.html > summarised the state of the 3 proposals at the time). > > I think this is something that should be resolved - we don't appear to > be gaining anything by waiting, and until we have a decision on the > approach that's being taken, we aren't going to get anyone writing > code for their preferred option. > > Nick - do you have the time to pick this up? Or does it need someone > to step up as BDFL-delegate? Robert, Nathaniel, do you have time to > spend on a final round of discussion on this, on the assumption that > the goal will be a final decision at the end of it? Donald, do you > have the time and interest to complete and publish your proposal? > > Paul
I was following that PEP and going to implement it in Twine for the PyPA. If it would help, I can help Nick with this process. I read both PEPs a while ago and I think updates have been made so I'd need to read them again, but I can probably make some time for this. -- Ian _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
