I can envision a world where we migrate to space-separated everywhere, but I
think that would involve a decade of consumers supporting both until everyone
updates to a version of setuptools that emits spaces and I'm not sure it's
worth it.
Was anyone on the list involved with the decision to us
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:24 PM Paul G 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
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
Resending, since the previous attempt was blocked by the mailing list.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 11:53 PM, Pradyun Gedam wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:31 PM Thomas Kluyver
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>> There seems to be a loose agreement in favour of changing the spec to
>> match what distutils & setupto