2009/12/22 Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:07, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But there is much more than what PEP 314 defines. Think about >> everything which is in an egg, for example. How are files locations >> are described, how are files outside site-packages described, etc... > > What do you mean "how"?
This is answered in my another email (build manifest and eggs). > >> As a concrete example, there is not enough metadata in every installer >> so that you can convert from one to the other, even though this would >> be very useful and definitely possible. > > This I don't understand. What do you mean with "installer"? What kind > of conversions do you refer to? By installer, I mean things produced by bdist_*. A significant portion of windows users don't like eggs, and prefer .exe-based (or .msi-based) installers. Currently, it is not possible to (reliably) convert from one to the other (e.g. eggs->wininst), but there is no reason why this is so. > >> For example, you can upload a distribution which does not even have a >> name, or a version, easy_install tries to find tarballs by scrapping >> webpages, etc... > > Well, if you like your distribution to be called UNKNOWN-0.0, then I > guess you can. But you also get warnings like this: > > warning: sdist: standard file not found: should have one of README, README.txt > warning: sdist: missing required meta-data: name, url > warning: sdist: missing meta-data: either (author and author_email) or > (maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied > > In my opinion that's your problem of you ignore those You are not wrong, but we are not talking about the same scenario. The scenario I care the most is user A build or install a package, and user B wants to install it; A may know very little about python. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
