On 10 February 2016 at 13:23, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 February 2016 at 20:53, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We don't have to solve the whole "sdist 2.0" issue right now. Simply >> saying that in order to publish pypa.json-based source trees you need >> to zip up the source directory, name the file "project-version.zip" >> and upload to PyPI, would be sufficient as a short-term answer >> (assuming that this *would* be a viable "source file" that pip could >> use - and I must be clear that I *haven't checked this*!!!) until >> something like Nathaniel's source distribution proposal, or a >> full-blown sdist-2.0 spec, is available. We'd need to support whatever >> stopgap proposal we recommend for backward compatibility in those new >> proposals, but that's a necessary cost of not wanting to delay the >> current PEP on those other ones. > > One of the reasons I went ahead and created the specifications page at > https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/ was to let us > tweak interoperability requirements as needed, without wasting > people's time with excessive PEP wrangling by requiring a separate PEP > for each interface affected by a proposal. > > In this case, the build system abstraction PEP should propose some > additional text for > https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/#source-distribution-format > defining how to publish source archives containing a pypa.json file > and the setup.py shim. At that point, it will effectively become the > spec for sdist 1.0, since that's never previously been officially > defined. > > The key difference from setuptools is that the setup.py shim will be a > standard one that flit (and other source archive creation tools) can > inject when building the sdist, rather than needing to be a custom > file stored in each project's source repository.
Neat! That sounds like a sensible approach, and if the build system abstraction PEP adds this, then that addresses my remaining objections. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
