Axle? On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:25 AM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> On October 5, 2015 at 9:11:59 AM, Paul Moore (p.f.mo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 5 October 2015 at 13:44, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > [3] Unlike Paul, I think a Source Wheel is actually a decent name for > this > > > concept. It's similar to .rpm and .src.rpm in that world, and I think > it > > > makes it more obvious that this item isn't an installable item in it's > own > > > right, that it exists in order to produce binary wheels. However, this > > > concept is currently being handled by the sdist "format", however > > > ambigiously defined that currently is. I also think it makes it a bit > > > easier to get rid of the ambigous "package", since we can just call > them > > > all "wheels" which is easier to say than "distribution". > > > > Being a Windows user, I hadn't caught the parallel between > > Wheel-Source wheel and RPM-Source RPM (is there also a similar > > deb-source deb pair?) > > > > But if the concept works for people with a Linux background, I'm OK with > it. > > > > (My main concern is that end users commonly make requests to projects > > saying "please provide wheels". I don't want that nice simple concept > > to get confused, if we can avoid it). > > > > Paul > > > > I'm not dead set on the source wheel name or anything either fwiw. I liked > the > parallels between that and .src.rpm and .rpm and I think the "sdist" name > is > kind of a mouthful to say. The debian analog to a source rpm is just a > "source > package", but that's really just a directory that you can run the debian > build > tools in, it's not really a package format like source RPMs are. Source > RPMs > have an "install" concept, but it's not really like pip's install, it just > unpacks the file into place so that you can later build it. > > The main thing I wanted was something that wasn't a mouthful to say and > that > had a dedicated extension so we don't end up where the filename looks > incredibly generic (requests-1.0.swhl vs requests-1.0.tar.gz). I liked the > idea > of tying it into Wheels to keep the "new guard" of packaging formats > related to > each other, but I'm also happy to use a different term. > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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