On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We might as well allow happy setuptools users to continue using > setuptools. I don't care about making a pkg_resources console_scripts > handler that does the same thing because we can just use the existing > one. The more important contribution is to provide an alternative for > people who are not happy setuptools users. > > > I generally agree with this :) I just think that we need to close the loop > on > our current efforts before adding more things into the fray. The only major > change to the eco system we've made so far that has actually *shipped* > to end users is the distribute/setuptools merge and that's causing a lot > of pain to people. > > Soon we'll at least have a pip version with prelim wheel support but I don't > even know if it supports metadata 2.0 at all or not yet? I think there's a > pre-release of wheel that does though?
bdist_wheel will produce json metadata that generally conforms to the current PEP but no consumer takes advantage of it just yet. I added the "generator" key to the metadata so it would be easy to throw out outdated or buggy json metadata. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
