Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Donald Stufft donald.stu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Keywords (optional) --- A list of additional whitespace separated keywords to be used to assist searching for the distribution in a

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-04 Thread Donald Stufft
On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Keywords are supposed to be short, and the field name is Keywords rather than Keyword, so I don't think it's worth the hassle of changing it. I at least clarified it to be explicitly whitespace-separated in this version (that was

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-04 Thread Vinay Sajip
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: With Donald Stufft's assistance, I've created a new draft of PEP 426. For the moment I'm listed as a co-author and no longer as BDFL-Delegate - there's a separate discussion on python-dev about that. I think it's worth inserting in the Example

[Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
With Donald Stufft's assistance, I've created a new draft of PEP 426. For the moment I'm listed as a co-author and no longer as BDFL-Delegate - there's a separate discussion on python-dev about that. The major substantive changes from Daniel's last draft are to: - remove the dependency on PEP 386

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: With Donald Stufft's assistance, I've created a new draft of PEP 426. For the moment I'm listed as a co-author and no longer as BDFL-Delegate - there's a separate discussion on python-dev about that. In addition to the

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 4 Feb 2013 00:30, Lele Gaifax l...@metapensiero.it wrote: Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com writes: … Summary of Differences From \PEP 345 Spurious backslash? Deliberate - it stops the automatic link generation in the PEP HTML generator. … It

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Donald Stufft
On Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Keywords (optional) --- A list of additional whitespace separated keywords to be used to assist searching for the distribution in a larger catalog. Example:: Keywords: dog puppy voting election I wonder if it

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Marcus Smith
.devN, aN, bN, cN, rcN, no suffix, .postN ok, cool. my concern was that the general nature .dev might be lost, but it's not. i.e. what Toshio was talking about last year when he said: People were very clear that they wanted to be able to stick dev versions in the middle of their attempt to

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Daniel Holth
Excellent rationale sections. Let Extension: Name be legal without Name/ fields. Perhaps you would do that to ask that the extension just needs to interpret the standard metadata. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Marcus Smith qwc...@gmail.com wrote: .devN, aN, bN, cN, rcN, no suffix, .postN

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Vinay Sajip
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: With Donald Stufft's assistance, I've created a new draft of PEP 426. For the moment I'm listed as a co-author and no longer as BDFL-Delegate - there's a separate discussion on python-dev about that. Still digesting the draft, but I notice that

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Marcus Smith
.devN, aN, bN, cN, rcN, no suffix, .postN like mentioned last year, the only case I can imagine some stakeholder complaining about is the loss of a pre-release notion between a rc and final that .dev served before. the response I guess is that you can just tack on a .post to a rc? 1.0rc1.post1

Re: [Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

2013-02-03 Thread Daniel Holth
The optional-features extra environment marker extension covers the test requirements case and any other class of optional dependencies. On Feb 3, 2013 4:37 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: With Donald Stufft's assistance, I've created