On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 15:02, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > The VCS is an external piece of software outside of Python and the > distutils. There also isn't just one VCS, there's many of them and > all of them are on different release schedules which differ from > Python's and/or distutils's release schedules and can thus break API, > or datastore semantics at any time (I think this was demonstrated with > setuptools and svn 1.5 but not sure since I don't use setuptools). > Therefore for distutils to actually depend on a VCS to function seems > dangerous and a massive maintenance burden.
I never said it should depend on it. Just that it should be able to get a file list from the VCS, if a file list isn't otherwise explicitly defined. No arguments against this has come forward. > But the basic problem stays the same, distutils can be broken by > external software. As mentioned earlier we of course can't rely on internal VCS file formats to stay the same. Code that does that should not be a part of the standardlib. But is that really an argument against the principle? > I do acknowledge that for some people this is exactly what they want > and indeed can see the benefit of integrating with your VCS. So yes, > that should be made possible. But as has been said numerous times > distutils should move to some common data formats so that different > tools can be used to provide this type of extra-sweet functionality > for a subset of the users. Of course. >> 1. If there is explicit definitions, use that. >> 2. If not, then if there is a VCS, use that. >> 3. If not, include all files except those extensions that are known to >> be temporary files. >> >> Where in this is there a "lower level"? > > Number 1 could be the simple lower level, a list of files It's all a list of files. It's a question of how that list is generated. "Manually" is not lower level, it's just impractical. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
