There seems to be a loose agreement in favour of changing the spec to match what distutils & setuptools do, so I've opened a PR against the spec:
https://github.com/pypa/packaging.python.org/pull/674 On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Fred Drake wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:24 PM Paul G <p...@ganssle.io> wrote: > > Was anyone on the list involved with the decision to use spaces in the > > spec? Is there some compelling reason we're missing to make the switch? > > distutils was originally conceived and written by Greg Ward at CNRI, > back when Guido led a group there. Greg was in another group, but > they were active Python users as well. We (primarily Greg & I) spent > a lot of time discussing distutils and how things should work, but I > don't recall specifically discussing keyword separators. The whole > keywords thing was pretty geared to our guesses about how an index > would work; actually implementing the first version of PyPI wasn't a > part of Greg's project. > > Getting far enough along to build a range of C-based extensions was a > pretty substantial bootstrapping task in the late '90s! > > On November 18, 2019 1:07:50 PM UTC, Thomas Kluyver > <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > > The comma-separated format allows keywords containing a space - like > > 'orbital mechanics' in the example I was investigating (poliastro). > > This seems reason enough to stick with the current implementation > approach and forget about space separation. > > > -Fred > > -- > Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at fdrake.net> > "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/U2YH2PXHG6MAUMSXE5EWBDQUI7WQ3JUA/ > -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/MWVMFU3GY767YFK7ZM5YFXXLWOUWW3BA/
