On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I have some unpublished work I should publish. >> >> Part of the point with what i'm trying to do is to define a standard for >> what is inside >> a package, but not really for how you take a particular set of files and >> turn it into >> that. So if you want to edit yaml you can have a yaml file and have a >> package >> creation tool that turns that yaml into the standard json that gets added to >> the >> package. The same can be said for a python file or a setup.cfg or whatever. >> Ideally >> the roles of package creation, building, and installation should be able to >> be completely >> separate. So my goal is to facilitate that by creating a standard way to >> describe >> all the data about a distribution, including extensible data in a way that >> any tool >> can serialize or deserialize it losslessly. > > Note that all this work has already been done in Bento.
I am a huge fan of Bento. I will be converting my packages to use it as soon as is practical. I would like to add the "where are things installed.py" generation to the wheel standard somehow. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
