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 &
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
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
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
