On 5 September 2015 at 16:46, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I don't have a specific problem with the specs living somewhere else >>> as well, I just don't think moving a lengthy document full of edge cases >>> from one location to another is going to make things better >> >> If I may, I don't think that really captures Nick's idea. >> >> I think it's about clearly distinguishing the following: >> >> 1) Current Specs (for metadata, versioning, pypi etc..) >> 2) Proposals to adjust or add to the Current Specs >> >> We don't have a clear distinction right now. We just have a series of >> PEPs, and it's work to figure out where the actual current spec is at, in >> the noise of rationales and transition plans etc... > > Speaking as someone who has been pretty confused in the past trying to > look up what the actual current rules are for something like version > numbers or metadata (is this the current PEP? oh wait this one's newer > -- oh but wait is the newer one still in development? or maybe > abandoned?, etc.): +1
We also have specs like Tarek's database of installed distributions (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/), where we kept the "dist-info" parts, but not any of the API proposals. *Existing* formats (like sdist) could also be specified there without requiring a new PEP (modulo people's time to do the work, but at least having a place for such specs to *go* would be a good first step). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
