On Mar 6, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Michael Bayer <mike_mp <at> zzzcomputing.com> writes: > >> I don’t know the metadata format in pep426 well enough to comment (as I > wanted to use it one day and found >> that it seemed to still be pretty much vapor), but I’ll reiterate: these > are source distributions, not >> binaries or wheels or anything like that. A source distro has to build, > and builds need options. A metadata >> format that purports to represent metadata about a source distribution and > does not support flags is a >> broken metadata format. > > PEP 426 only covers installation metadata - its scope does not cover source > distributions (there will be another PEP covering that). > > Apart from the most recent changes being not yet implemented and some open > issues relating to hooks, PEP 426 seems to cover installation metadata > reasonably well. However, sdist metadata is a different kettle of fish. OK so why does PEP-426 compatibility imply removal of command line switches from setup.py files ? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
