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/
