Just call it Steve On Wed, May 4, 2016, 16:25 Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 4 May 2016 at 19:39, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4 May 2016 at 16:03, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> > wrote: > >> The edits I'd expect to make if the conclusions I suggested in > >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-March/028437.html > >> are adopted are: > >> > >> - change to a Python API > >> - BFDL call on the file format and name > >> > >> There is no need to issue a new sdist thing, because sdists today are > >> *already* documented across PEPs 241, 314 and 345. > > > > I already +1'ed using a Python API, but on the file name & format > > side, we have the following candidates and prior art floating around: > > > > pypa.json in PEP 516 > > pypackage.json in PEP 517 > > pydist.json in PEP 426 > > METADATA (Key: Value) in sdists and wheels > > WHEEL (Key: Value) in wheels > > > > My impression is that we're generally agreed on wanting to move from > > Key:Value to JSON as the baseline for interoperability formats, so my > > suggestion is to use the name "pybuild.json". > > > > The problem I have with pypa/pypackage/pydist is that they're all too > > broad - we're moving towards an explicitly multi-stage pipeline (tree > > -> sdist -> wheel -> installed) and additional metadata gets added at > > each step. The "pybuild.json" metadata specifically covers how to get > > from a source tree or sdist to a built wheel file, so I think it makes > > sense to use a name that reflects that. > > I don't think we have anything resembling consensus on that pipeline idea. > > pybuild.json would be fine as a name though :). > > -Rob > > > -- > Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hpe.com> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Converged Cloud > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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